From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Nov 27 8:28:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.vub.ac.be (guppy.vub.ac.be [134.184.129.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C69A37B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:28:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from fort-knox.rave.org (igwe15.vub.ac.be [134.184.49.15]) by guppy.vub.ac.be (8.9.1b+Sun/3.17.1.ap (guppy)) id RAA01207; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:28:28 +0100 (MET) for Received: (qmail 31597 invoked by uid 1979); 27 Nov 2001 16:28:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 16:28:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:28:02 +0100 (CET) From: Wouter Van Hemel To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/31271: rl(4) discourages vender openness by disparaging remarks. In-Reply-To: <200111271600.fARG06O43712@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: PGP: 0B B4 BC 28 53 62 FE 94 6A 57 EE B8 A6 E2 1B E4 (0xAA5412F0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > I think that we should try to avoid making nasty remarks about > hardware vendors. I mean, in our lists, in the archives, it's > probably OK, but in documentation that is shipped with FreeBSD, it's > kind of embarrassing. > I agree. Documentation is about info and facts, not about personal opinions. It's not the place for 'colorful language', no matter how much the writer would like to add that. If docs are incomplete, or hardware is not properly documented, a simple notice will do. 'incomplete' is a fact, 'bad' isn't. Just my opinion, though. ;) wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message