Re: Web Developer Wiki

[email protected] wrote:
> Generally (always?) open source documentation is not as good as
> commercial software documentation as not many would like to do it (for
> free) and it can be very tedious to do.

Exactly. In closed source environment there are people paid for writing 
documentation and they are NOT the same people implementing concerned 
technology. And because you HAVE TO write the documentation and you 
DON'T understand it, you have to find out (and consequently provide 
usable output). In open source world implementator of the technology is 
by default skilled in it so it's almost standard that documentation 
written by him is unusable for mere mortals. And because no one is paid 
for it, others, who menage to understand the technology, are not 
motivated to share with others - if they can understand it, others can 
too... (There are honorable but rare exceptions.) So while highly 
skillful/motivated/crazy/etc are following open source, the crowd is 
following closed source. Sad true :/ The open question is who will have 
more influence in the end.

   JZ

PS: My primary development platform - Mozilla. My primary documentation 
- MS Platform Inet SDK... (And xulplanet.com and zvon.org :)