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   gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 18:01:10 JST gnutelephony

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   • Paolo Amoroso

   @amoroso the last time I wrote extensive documentation was when I was doing GNU Bayonne, and yes, it did raise the commercial sell-ability of it.

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     Paolo Amoroso (amoroso@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 18:01:11 JST Paolo Amoroso

     The advice for writing better software manuals in this article, published in the May 1983 issue of BYTE magazine, is still useful, assuming software manuals are still produced. The article noted that software with good manuals sold better, which makes sense.

     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-05/page/n287/mode/2up?view=theater

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