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As a professional Teacher, Registered Nurse and trained Counsellor/Psychotherapist, the author is often dismayed at the way newcomers sometimes get treated when asking for help in the forums, particularly some of the Open Source places. Newbies post genuine questions only to be flamed, confused or accused of being an idiot.
This seems to be one of the paradoxes of the open source phenomena, where some 'expert' users are rabid about getting away from proprietary software and implore the rest of the world to do likewise, but have little time or patience to help newcomers climb on board. Some self-appointed 'experts' would rather massage their own egos, it seems In a similar vein, a great deal of the information that is out there is of a highly technical nature. It is either pitched at way too high a level, making huge assumptions about the reader's degree of expertise, or important steps and explanations are omitted, leaving the new user wondering why they can't get the thing to work properly. So for a variety of reasons then, it seems that good instruction - without the attitude - is hard to find. The main raison d'être of nobluescreens.com is to attempt to redress this balance and provide the user with useful technical documentation and assistance, in getting their open source projects up and running. Andrew Mallett Tasmania Australia, November 2005 PS If you enjoy a good rant or are interested in more of Andy's views on this theme, check out the article, Is Unix hard to learn?. Agenda!? What agenda!?? |
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