Silicon Graphics is doing this to some degree already. We don't do
it "in return for advertising," or anything (IMHO) shady like that,
but SGI has a product called Insight which is an on-line document
viewer. One of the document sets we ship is a "book" of Frequently
Asked Questions that engineers here at SGI have written exclusively
to be included in the SGI product.
As "independent art" we (myself, an SGI employee; and the other
keepers of the SGI *USENET* FAQ lists, who are not SGI employees)
have created a completely separate list of FAQ's that are in the
public domain and that we post to comp.sys.sgi.* every few weeks.
This all seems somewhat twisted, but is really very simple.
We-the-outsiders-and-a-few-rogue-engineers made our own FAQ's and
distribute them via USENet. Official SGI people also have made a set
of FAQ's and SGI sells the set as documentation. Stuff that the
outsiders write/collect is not included in the stuff SGI sells, and
vice versa. So far it's working out pretty good. :-)
Allan
-- Allan Schaffer Silicon Graphics aschaffe@sgi.com
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