> > This is just wrong, IMHO.
>
> Wrong as in immoral, or wrong as in poorly-thought-out?
Poorly-thought out.
> > I'm not embaressed. It's your life and your descision. None of my
> > business how you make your living.
>
> Oh don't be silly: if you didn't care you would not have brought it up
> in the first place.
The only reason why I brought this up is because there are a few too
many FAQs up there that are blatantly being biased. I just don't
want this to become a normal thing. I may have sounded harsh in my
last posts. My fault for getting heaty about things.
> And here's another: right after I sent of my previous message in this
> thread, I added a couple of links in my FAQ to yours. (No need to
> reciprocate: my FAQ doesn't contain much of interest to your readers, I
> think.) It's good stuff -- I'm glad I found it. It's too bad I found
> it under these circumstances, though.
I'm going to add a link to yours from mine in the next version.
You'll save me all the "how do i do this under windows" type stuff.
And to be perfectly honest yours isn't even as remotely cluttered
with commericialism as I thought. Although I didn't exactly proof
read for biased remarks, you sound reasonable enough not to do so.
> Ditto -- my primary focus is the same as yours. Our only difference on
> this matter is that in addition I link the products I review to one
> place that my readers can buy them. I don't even give my readers the
> standard, "please buy books from these people or I'll quit maintaining
> the FAQ" guilt trip. As a result, I have managed to pay a small
> fraction of my yearly $300 ISP bill. Who is harmed?
Harm will come when that sponsor gets on every FAQ and starts to
short change the customers. Harm will come when FAQ maintainers
decide to become biased and recommend books based on their sponsor's
insistence. This has already happened on one FAQ. I won't mention
which one because witch hunting won't do anyone any good. Also I
doubt the maintainer will make any changes based on my opinions.
Anyway I think everyone had their say, and I did more than my share.
I hope this discussion will let some maintainers see my point.
-- Thamer Al-Herbish PGP public key: shadows@whitefang.com http://www.whitefang.com/pgpkey.txt [ Maintainer of the Raw IP Networking FAQ http://www.whitefang.com/rin/ ]
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