[NTLUG:Discuss] More Open Source squabbling?

John R. Hall reeves at earthling.net
Tue Dec 28 13:44:38 CST 1999


> Yesterday I went over to the LDP to update my copy of the RPM How-To.
> With just a shade of attitude, the author has apparently severed ties
> with LDP, and moved his docs over to OSWG. It took a few minutes to find
> a valid link to OSWG (there were a lot of linuxchix links in the google
> search).  It looks like another documentation project under Open Source.
>
> What's going on with this DocBook crap?  Is the end of text-based
> documentation near?  And what's with this guy's attitude about the LDP
> having "to learn to pull"?

DocBook is actually a really cool documentation format (it's an
SGML DTD for structured documents, everything from HOWTO's to books). It
can be processed into plain text, and I hope they'd have the sense to do
that. But the fragmentation of open source documentation projects is
dangerously bad...

-Reeves






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