I think what a lot of people are missing is your (and Scott's) emphasis 
on _professional_ level documentation. ()

No open source project has professional level documentation for free. 
They have at best whatever the developer felt like spewing in something 
approximating English. Think of the money people shell out for books on 
Linux, Apache, PHP, etc. Probably one of the biggest hurdles PostgreSQL 
had was that the only documentation was the online, volunteer maintained 
stuff (until recently). Not that my opinion matters a while lot, but 
providing a brief guide to features (getting started, whatever it's 
called) for free and charging for something professional makes perfect 
sense.

Now: when is the book out (so I can put it on the shelf and piss off the 
IBM weenies)

-danch

marc fleury wrote:

> |  And for the most part it's a great idea - but you really odda consider
> |  providing some decent enough docs at least for people to get started on,
> |  otherwise I imagine you'll find alot of people never getting started at
> |  all...
> 
> I don't get it, that is what we are talking about making a getstarted stuff
> free and good and then the advanced stuff for a fee, did I fail to
> communicate this?
> 
> marcf
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