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Sunday, January 15, 2006

asking questions 

: "When you ask a question about an open source product, ask the community, not one specific person. When you ask for one person to answer the question, then other people who may know the answer, might not help (in fact they almost never will, assuming you had some reason to want to know the answer from this one specific person). I've been doing this for many years. People almost never want to hear this, so I usually just ignore the questions, even if they have easy answers, because I want a community to develop, one where people help each other. That's the only way it can grow. And I want that kind of growth even more than I want you to get over this particular hurdle."

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