Re: Free as in beer

John Andersen wrote:

>On Friday 22 August 2003 13:14, Matthew King wrote:
>
>>>The fact that you come close to suggesting lawyers between
>>>users and developers comes close to spelling the doom
>>>
>>It does come close, doesn't it? It shouldn't though. Ideally the person
>>between would be some sort of geek. I like to think I can explain geek
>>stuff to users in a fashion they understand. There must be others like
>>me.
>>
>
>Coders are not the best documenters.  Thats for sure.
>
>Programmers should have their non-techie friend or 
>spouse write the documentation.  On second thought,
>few marriages or friendships would survive that.
>

Perhapse the OSDN community should set up a network
for *setting* *up* technical writers with programmers.
That way, no marriages and friendships need be broken
up by the documentation process.

And who knows? Maybe after the documentation gets
written the programmer and the writer might stay
in touch, thus the documentation process would
*forge* relationships rather than *destroying*
them. At very least, it won't destroy them.