From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 13 12:21: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (dsl092-013-169.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6146C37B405 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f7DJL0n02529; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:21:00 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Joe Kelsey Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Last Words...(documentation) Message-ID: <20010813122100.A2472@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <15224.6928.355296.565585@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15224.6928.355296.565585@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>; from joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:23:12AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 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