In my opinion, and it seems perfectly logical to me, if someone writes some code, but provides no documentation, such that no one can use it, >> then what is the point?
Because they probably wrote it for something they needed and released it to the general public...to those that want to take the time to figure out how such and such handled the problem they had. If people wanted to try and understand it fine...if they didn't fine...is how they looked at it...I mean if I write something specifically for me and released it cause I thought someone with a high understanding of what they were doing would want to use it...I wouldn't write documentation for it either.
If I wrote something specifically to release to the public...I would write documentation for it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Garstang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:34 PM Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
-----Original Message----- From: Moises Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:20 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's Douglas. Please take this as a constructive comment. I have followed your questions in asterisk-dev and users lists, and you always seem to make non constructive comments about the people giving code/work for Free. And you focus in the negative part, never giving importance to the positive things about it.
In my opinion, and it seems perfectly logical to me, if someone writes some code, but provides no documentation, such that no one can use it, then what is the point? They have not provided a solution to anyones problem except their own, and have no added value to the open source community in any way, except to create 'vapourware' whereby software appears to be available, but is unusable, because no one can work out how to make it work.
If you dont like something, then change it yourself, they are not providing a payed service. The source is available AS-IS if you want it, and if you like it, take it; If you dont, just ignore it, try to not make peyorative comments.
I'll refer to my opinion above. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.1/421 - Release Date: 8/16/2006 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
