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[Andrew Robinson]

Jeff Vian wrote:
>
> You did not explicitly ruffle my feathers, I was commenting about the 
> general attitude many of the posters here have of "tell me the answer" 
> instead of "where can I find the answer".
> The 'mini-rant' was of the attitude that I abhor in many of the younger 
> generation (and even in some of my own generation) in that they expect 
> to have everything handed to them with no effort on their part.
> 
> I stand by my earlier comment that we as a whole community should not 
> have to spoon feed information to people. If they are interested and it 
> has a meaniing to them they should have the initiative to go find it, 
> instead of whining because it was not all packaged up for them.
> 

I'm not advocating spoon feeding. However, I think it behooves the 
developer to provide a minimal amount of information about his project 
if he/she is posting to a public forum. It just seems polite to me.

We agree that a line should be drawn between a the effort expected of a 
developer to provide information about his project and the effort a user 
should make to inform himself of that project. We disagree over where 
that line should be drawn. To me, this is an important argument. Linux 
is appealing to ever larger audiences, both users _and_ developers. 
Because of the increase in users, the average saviness is down. Because 
of the increase in developers, the number of software projects is up. 
For both reasons, I think developers should provide minimial information 
about their software when posting announcements to public forums. It 
would come as a small cost of their time. It would provide a much larger 
saving of time to the overall community.

Andrew Robinson