discuss: Al Devs HOWTOs (was Re: Is PHP-HOWTO some kind of joke ?)
Subject:
Re: Al Devs HOWTOs (was Re: Is PHP-HOWTO some kind of joke ?)
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
11 Nov 2003 22:54:36 -0000
Message-Id: <20031111225406.GC340@lafn.org>
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:59:07PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> A few months ago, I flicked through the PHP-HOWTO and wondered to myself
> whether I should be shipping it as part of Debian's LDP packages. Since
> I don't know much about PHP myself, I went and talked to our php4
> maintainer to get a second opinion. According to him, at the time, the
> only remotely valuable content in the document had been more or less
> directly copied from the documentation on php.net; the rest was mere
> invective or just plain wrong.
I found something similar in his CPU Design HOWTO. The parts that
seemed to be well written were copied from other sites. He pieced them
together in a way that didn't make much sense (unless one already knew
how to design a CPU). A better plagiarist would have been able to
create a more readable document from them (and use more plagiarized
material to fill in gaps) .
David Lawyer
