From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 12 13:33:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD34037B50E for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28575; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:33:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09182; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:33:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:33:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003122133.OAA09182@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dennis Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Joe Abley , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... In-Reply-To: <200003122012.PAA00812@etinc.com> References: <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com> <20000312193205.W68308@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200003122012.PAA00812@etinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >That's also why I am wasting my time slowly documenting the FreeBSD > >internals in my spare time. > > "slowly" is the key word here. Real products are documented before they are > in commercial use. Really? That's very different from my experience as a commercial software developer. And, it's not the experience I had from using your products as well. Documentation was as sparse as the FreeBSD documentation, but this is typical of most projects, except for government projects which requires truckloads of documentation. That's the main reason that government projects are rarely on time and budget, and never end up with the features that are desired. They spend all their time documenting, and no time implementing. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message