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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by xigoi on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:21AM (#36748017)
What's wrong with documentation on a website?
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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by Per_Bothner on Sunday July 16, 2023 @12:26PM (#36748719)
The complaint was about having to sign up to (register for) yet-another website.
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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by xigoi on Sunday July 16, 2023 @12:35PM (#36748830)
Which site requires you to sign up in order to read documentation?
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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday July 16, 2023 @05:28PM (#36751562)
It's certainly less common now, but prior to 2015 it was common for "legacy" vendors (y'know... the paranoid and posessive types, like ProgressDB...) - or just those embarassed about the state of their products compared to the rest of the industry: they'll hide their KB articles, bug-reports and workarounds, and more besides) behind a registration-wall, or even worse: only grant you access if you have a current support contract with them.
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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by acutesoftware on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:05PM (#36752981)
Oracle requires you to login to get access to most support documents now.
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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by DaiPlusPlus on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:19AM (#36754412)
At least their SQL documentation is public - I remember (at least a decade ago) that only Postgres, MySQL, and MSSQL made their documentation public, while info on IBM DB2 and Oracle was scarce.
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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by 0xEFF on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:41PM (#36762992)
RedHat has traditionally.
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Re:Discord Is Not Documentation by lgas on Sunday July 16, 2023 @12:40PM (#36748902)
Right. This is actually what I, and I think most people, actually want.
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