[Asterisk-Dev] RFC: Moderating the Asterisk Mailing Lists

[Gregory Junker]

Thank you for pointing out exactly what is wrong (specifically, your 
attitude) with the majority of open-source projects.

Greg

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Brian Wilkins wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't think the list is the problem, it's simple lack of good, solid
>>documentation. Newbies will always have questions, but we can't blame
>>them for asking when a lot of the information on the wiki is outdated,
> 
> Yes we can. Watch me.
> 
> 
>>plus we don't even have a recent handbook published. Look at the mysql
>>website (another open source project), they have loads of documentation
>>and it is easily searchable.
> 
> a) MySQL was not always GPL
> 
> b) Not all of MySQL is GPL even now
> 
> c) They just have more money to spend on people who do not directly
> contribute to the features. Documentation, while important to newbies, is
> not as important to people who are used to Reading the Fine Source.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -alex
> 
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