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I think some do contribute, but there are a lot of other people who
want to write documentation. Some of them do quite well. The PHP5
documentation is at times exceptional.
Many tech writers get a start with volunteer projects including but not
limited to F/OSS work.
> I'd like to follow-up with a second question: while it's not unusual
> for
> a software developer to contribute code to an open-source software
> project, I haven't (personally) seen much evidence of tech. writers
> contributing documentation, manuals, etc. to open-source software
> projects.
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