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Subject:Re: "If the docs are too good..." From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:32:11 -0500
technical -at- theverbalist -dot- com wrote:
> So an SME I was talking to floated the ol' air biscuit that he "was told
> by someone who'd been told that if the product docs were too good, that
> clients wouldn't purchase the training." Any suggestions for snappy
> come-backs to that one?
Well, by extrapolation, if there are no docs at all you will sell an
infinite amount of product and thereby achieve world domination.
