Re: Futile bug reports?

[Bill Richter]

   The conclusion I reached was that, although free software is
   invariably better than its restricted counterparts, free tutorial
   documentation is usually less good than (the best of the)
   commercially published alternatives.  

I doubt this is true.  My guess is that *both* the free and
commercially tutorial documentation are bad, and have much the same
deficiencies.

   Why this should be would likely make a good PhD thesis.

Yeah, and I think my statement would make an even better PhD thesis :)

But maybe it's got a simple explanation: Folks who write computer
manuals are already top-notch programmers, so they can't fit into the
shoes anymore of the newbies.

-- 
Bill 
<http://www.math.nwu.edu/~richter>