[TUHS] man-page style

Chet Ramey chet.ramey at case.edu
Mon Nov 19 13:05:59 AEST 2018


On 11/17/18 1:21 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 11:14:53AM -0700, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>>
>> The man page authors / tech writers at Sun were paid to write man
>> pages, and learned / were taught how to do it well. The Linux stuff is
>> done by volunteers.  You're comparing apples and oranges.
>         
> How do we kill this meme?  

As soon as volunteers like Arnold, who maintains a widely-used piece
of the Linux infrastructure, get paid.

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