That's the wonderful thing about open source. It's a volunteer effort. If you're using the software, and you don't like how things are done, you can chip in and make a difference.
If you're using the software, and you don't like how things are done, and you don't chip in to help out, you can basically shut your cakehole, because you're forgetting that it's a volunteer effort, and completely free. It's also a no-win situation in most cases...people are screaming for the next latest greatest feature (for free, I might add), so the developers spend their time creating the feature instead of documenting the things they've already written. But then people start screaming about the documentation. Open source dev teams typically can't win, so what's their incentive for pleasing you instead of pleasing themselves? BTW, software written for "life and death situations" typically costs millions of dollars to produce, and even then it's possible that it has bugs. As soon as you're willing to contribute millions of dollars to any or all of the Jakarta projects, I'm sure the teams will do everything in their power to make sure their software tucks you in at night and guarantees you and yours are safe, warm, and content. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike DiChiappari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:05 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: I don�t understand the objective of this open list ! > > > You're correct. There is lots of documentation out there. > Unfortunately, it belongs with most things that are open sourse - in > the trash. Jakarata/tomcat is particularly bad. The people that > manage it should be ashamed of themselves (I hope they are not > building software I have to rely on in life and death situations). > > Mike > > > >I disagree. There's lots of documentation out there. > > > >It's just not blasted into peoples' faces, nor is it bound > into a nice > >little book and shrinkwrapped. You have to go find it, and > you have to read > >it. Most people are too lazy to do either, they want > everything handed to > >them. > > > >John > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
