Andrew Robinson became daring and sent these 1.5K bytes, > Aaron Matteson wrote: > > >I think having to explain everything in every announcement is pretty > >rediculous. It should be common knowledge, even for new windows > >imagrants to use google. More and more time and energy are being spent > >on holding-the-newbies-hand in addition to changing his/her diapers for > >them. > > > >Common people, if you do not know something typing google.com is a hell > >of a lot easier then typing out an email to bitch. > > > I respectfully disagree. No, the announcer does not have to explain > everything. But I don't see the huge effort in supplying a sentence or > two to describe what the software does. After the first announcement, it > would be canned anyway. > > I've been working with Unix since 1988. I appreciate that Linux gives me > the power of Unix for the cost of PC hardware. But the volume and > variety of software is vastly greater for Linux than for any Unix > variant I ever worked with in the past. If you have developed some > software that you think would be useful to me or others, tell us about > it! If you expect me to discover it, I probably will not. And that's a > loss for both of us. > > You are correct, it would have been far easier for me to google > "SELinux" than type out an email to bitch. The reason I went to the > trouble was to make a point I thought would be useful to the community. > I apolgize for phrasing it in a manner that ruffled feathers. I would first like to offer my appologies for my previous post to this thread, i sent it off in the "heat of the moment". Second, i would like to use my previous post to point out that perhaps there needs to be a manifesto of sorts to show people where and how to look for desired information. I would not mind undertaking this task with the help of oen or two others using the standard fedora/redhat documentation methods. Anyone up for this task besides me? -- . 0 . Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us . . 0 Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, 0 0 0 it should be hard to understand! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! \ / X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander / \ are lost --jrr tolkien
