discuss: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
Subject:
Re: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
From:
rahul ####@####.####
Date:
12 Dec 2003 04:11:08 -0000
Message-Id: <3FD9DBBB.1070505@yahoo.co.in>
Hi
>
> It's true that OO is bundled and will hopefully become very widely
> used, and that SO costs money... so I agree with your points above.
> Why the heck would any of this make it a good idea to remove the SO
> HOWTO? There is an application (SO), people use it, someone wrote a
> HOWTO for it... if the HOWTO is good, why oh why would you want to
> remove it?
Have you read the SO howto. Does it gave you anything more than the
bundled documentation can?
>
> It _is_ personally important to me; I believe that LDP is about
> Documenting things in any way related to Linux. Oracle, StarOffice,
> and other proprietary software that costs money are either things that
> enable people to move to Linux, or in some cases are /the reason/
> people move to Linux. Consider them advocacy. I personally am strongly
> against putting them in a "non-Free" section, like second-class citizens.
Segregation is not discrimination. Merging doesnt mean that the document
does not have independant value. You are assuming things
Regards
Rahul Sundaram
