From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 13 12:34:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9709037B40C; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA03493; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Joe Kelsey , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Last Words...(documentation) In-Reply-To: <20010813122100.A2472@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some of us try documant our stuff so that others can use it and because we feel that it's better to do something right than shoddily. On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:23:12AM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > TWO people have written to me and said that the reason THEY write > > documentation in their "day" jobs is that they get PAID for it. So, > > excuse me! I guess real programmers only write documentation when they > > are PAID! > > Yes! > > > Obviously, working on a FREE product, you don't get paid so you don't > > document! After all, the meaning is obvious from the code! > > No, documenting is drudgery. People don't do non-fun things for free. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message