>  they are very helpful.
   Glad to know it has been of help for you, but here “simple” and specific 
usefulness was not my only purpose. About this “Tech.Report” works I was much 
more ambitious and, in this regard, I failed.


My goal was that of proposing and proving a “revolutionary” way of documenting 
high tech. Tools (as certainly Eric is), based on the principle hereafter 
exposed, so to hopefully collect a consent and gather a bunch of qualified and 
aware users now on asking for nothing less that that.


Just for instance now there is another high tech. s/w tool I'd like to process 
this same way, it's the “MediathekView” [to give it a look you'd need knowing a 
little German]. Enterprise that revealed simply impossible, as the community 
there, both designers and users, not only refused to collaborate (just the 
opposite of Eric's case), but ware scornful, arrogant and offensive: "We are 
already perfect as we are, no need for any English Tech.Ref.Doc, and if you 
encounter any difficulty using our product it is simply because you are an 
idiot, not worth minding".


Anyhow, this the revolutionary principle I had tried to advocate, propose and 
prove with an actual and massive doc-example:

→ The primary reference for the Tech.Doc is the User, NOT the producer, nor the 
product in itself.


As a consequence of this fundamental, primary principle there is a whole set of 
consequent consequences, which would well be matter for a congress producing a 
final chart, a final Declaration of the Right of Users.

   Not having been capable of convincing any other fellow users of the value of 
such a cause now, old and tired [sob], I gave up my solitary and vain struggle.

So long.

- P.M.


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From: Christos Sevastiadis <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Eric] outdated “Technical Reports”

Hi,

They are the only reference and help manuals for Eric. They helped me to 
understand a lot of the Eric's behavior. For sure they need updating, but even 
like this they are very helpful.

Christos Sevastiadis

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