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RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies
Subject:RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:28:58 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hower
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:55 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: re: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source
> Technologies
>
> ...I still maintain that the biggest hurdle with open source is
> installation. For example, in a recent post, you (Bruce)
> mentioned Bluefish. I went to their Web site and got pretty
> excited about it. But after ten minutes of looking around I
> couldn't find all of the files needed for installation so I
> gave up. Too much work when the home edition of XML Spy is
> free, does everything I currently need, and the install is a
> single file.
Also, Bluefish doesn't run on Windows, whereas XML Spy (like Open
Office) does. Maybe "everyone knows" that Linux is going to replace
Windows everywhere someday -- but here in 2005, that's another hurdle.
-- Dan Goldstein
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