From owner-cvs-all Tue Jun 22 23:56:28 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles561.castles.com [208.214.165.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C672914C94; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:56:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00630; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906230652.XAA00630@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mark Newton , hm@hcs.de, nick.hibma@jrc.it, mike@smith.net.au, dfr@nlsystems.com, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:49:19 +0930." <19990623084919.R76907@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:52:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> In case FreeBSD wants to enter commercial environments, we have to behave > >> like behaving in commercial environments. > > > > Ok, so let's follow Microsoft's industry-leading documentation standards. > > He said "commercial", not "toy". Given that I've just spent a very unhappy couple of weeks demonstrating that this "toy" you're referring to outperforms us by a factor of anything from 3 to 10 on a range of basic benchmarks, and has hundreds of developer-oriented books on the shelves in every major bookstore in the developed world, I think your position is perhaps slightly less than tenable here. But Mark illustrates my point perfectly; developers don't write documentation. That's what camp followers are for. So far, we have the ones that whine about the loot and throw mud at us when we march too slowly, but not enough of the ones that sew our banners, mend our pots and pans, or teach our version of the gospel to the heathens we subdue. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message