-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-05-11 20:50, Brian K. White wrote:
This applies to the plethora of community self-help web forums too. They shoot themselves in the foot being so fragmented and each requiring registration to post. Many times I am googling for one thing, and I turn up many past discussions on similar or related topics, and I'll see people groping around and guessing and giving each other completely WRONG advice about something that I happen to know the facts inside and out. If it were possible to immediately hit reply and post, I would take the minute or two to jot down the secret key they are missing and clear up so much mystery and struggle with one sentence, which would help the next googler of that topic even if that particular thread were old and the people involved probably moved on. But I'm not going to register for every random web site that turns up just for that.
I happen to have a digital TV viewver/recorder that has such a forum of users and developers. Well, they create firmware for the machine (it uses linux), much better than the one originally supplied by the manufacturer, but you have to subscribe to be able to download the software. Plus, I have not seen the sourcececode (maybe I haven't searched enough for it) - and as I said, it is linux, it should be open and easily available. I could understand the manufacturer been a bit close, but the users? - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvpwUUACgkQU92UU+smfQUbcgCeLrgcPxaGS8LAL485d3u/jkcw Q80An1pBdtt1r9Vx8qpzc87g0EUto2fC =hZwe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org