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Date:      Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:33:11 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...
Message-ID:  <200003122133.OAA09182@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003122012.PAA00812@etinc.com>
References:  <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003111306520.14049-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com> <20000312193205.W68308@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200003122012.PAA00812@etinc.com>

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> >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


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