Re: Documentation?

Peter Dembinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:45:13AM +1030, [email protected] wrote:

[...]

> One of the things we will tolerate least is whinging and whining. 
> The essence of OS is that you are empowered to go out and do it 
> if you think it needs doing.

One more thing.  The most part of WM is GPLed, so there is _nothing_
stopping anyone from making commercial support for it.  One may for example
write a book describing WM in every detail and sell it.  That's the spirit
of GPL.  Developers do what they are interested in, but they don't 
restrain anyone from doing more boring things and sell it.

I repeat: if you want to have boring things like documentation made for you,
there is nothing stopping you from doing it for yourself or from hiring
someone who will do this for you.  Whining about some feature or artifact 
lacking on mailing list is not The Right Thing.  To be frank, it is even 
rude behaviour.  Comparing software people make in their free time to 
commercially-supported applications is pointless.

Besides -- WM is easy to use enough to use it without documentation, though 
there exists some user documentation. 

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