Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:40:36 -0700 (PDT) From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Opensource is not free Message-ID: <20000405094036.A25AC7C2B@yellow.rahul.net> References: <freebsd-stable.200004050624.XAA33558@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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I have wanted to contribute documentation, but found no good way to do
it.
To write documentation, I need authoritative information. That is hard
to get. If ther were design documents and programmer's notes, I could
take them and convert them into user manuals quite easily. But there
are no such documents that I have found so far. To write good
documentation I would have to essentially read all the FreeBSD code and
reverse-engineer it, following what is being done line by line and
variable by variable. That would take a LOT of time.
The other alternative I have would be to simply experiment, find out
what works, and write it down. That too takes a lot of time, and the
information you end up getting is incomplete.
I could also follow the FreeBSD-related mailing lists but the
information there is very fragment and it's hard to distinguish the
authoritative information from the rumors and guesses.
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@email.rahul.net> (spam-filtered with RSS and ORBS)
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