Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 07:25 pm

Vesa Karvonen wrote
(in article <degi9m$n7g$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>):

> Randy Howard <randyhoward@fooverizonbar.net> wrote:
>> Vesa Karvonen wrote
>>> Randy Howard <randyhoward@fooverizonbar.net> wrote:
> [...]
>>>> (I spend a lot of time doing tech support for friends and 
>>>> relatives.  *sigh*)
> 
>> I didn't want documentation yesterday.
> 
> It sounds to me like there are people who could use documentation and
> having the documentation (or friendlier UI) would save you time. Of
> course, documentation is effective only when people actually read it.

If you are a believer in good quality documentation for open 
source software, then you should be willing to fund a venture to 
create it and charge for it.  I am sure people that use free 
software are more than willing to pay for documentation, right?

Otherwise, you would have never told me to start such a 
business.



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