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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Sun documentation
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Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 06:04:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 24 06:04:47 1987
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In article <7642@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> In article <1499@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
> >... If you use your own macro packages to produce the doc
> >then they (the macros) already exist, so there is no (non-politcol)
> >reason that they can't be shipped with the troff source.
  
> True.
  
> >Nobody says you have to support the macro package.
  
> I think experience tends to prove otherwise:  Some customers complain
> about bugs in things released as `unsupported'.  This is no one's
> fault but said customers'; these people make things harder for
> everyone by tending to convince companies not to ship unsupported
> tools.

Guy was swift to jump on this via mail as well! I don't give up
that easy though :-)

Don't package it with the standard distribution, but make it available
as a seperate "Unsupported Program Offering" and charge a reasonable
amount of money for it to cover the media, distribution, etc. That way,
those of us who want this type of material will still have access to it,
with a clear understanding that "you pays your money & takes your chances".

This is essentially the idea behind the AT&T Toolchest (and boy do
they charge for distribution :-)

[If this discussion carries on it should migrate elsewhere]

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