[OSGeo-Discuss] Your open source career

[Miles Fidelman]

Landon Blake wrote:
> The lack of good user documentation is a weakness of many open source
> projects. The problem is that most of us like to code, but few of us
> like to write! It is something that needs to be addressed, although I am
> unsure of the solution. Maybe we need to invent an IDE for user
> documentation. :]
>   
It sort of depends.  One of the few ways open source developers get PAID 
for their work (unless their day job pays for their open source 
endeavors) is to write books about their software.  Hence the plethora 
of books about Apache, various Linux and BSD varieties, and so forth - 
written by the major developers thereof.

What, you expect high quality software, with high quality documentation, 
and support - with nobody getting paid anywhere along the line?

-- 
Miles R. Fidelman, Director of Government Programs
Traverse Technologies 
145 Tremont Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA  02111
mfidelman at traversetechnologies.com
617-395-8254
www.traversetechnologies.com