Well let's hope the Thought-Police aren't breaking my door down later
today ;)
To bad though. I'll think of other ways to help document. I might
start with just going through some really simple tutorial stuff.
Thanks for the info,
-dustin
On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Pierre Frisch wrote:
> Actually the complete story of wodev is that it got started with
> the blessing of Ernie Prakabar (WO marketing manager at the time)
> and with his active participation. The purpose was to create a wiki
> site where it would be possible to comment Apple documentation and
> add to it. Ernie wanted a quick launch so that we could have some
> significant content for WWDC that year I wrote the software over
> Christmas (it is still visible in WODev) and simultaneously we got
> the contract cleared through the lawyers. Unfortunately when it
> went for signature by the VPE it got torpedoed (Nobody has ever
> told me who the VPE was so I let you guess). Result we just trashed
> a project that had support from the WebObjects community inside and
> outside and had strong buy in from the Apple documentation group
> that was very interested in exploring new ways of documenting
> developers tools.
>
> The word of the wise is DON'T even think of copying Apple
> documentation.
>
> Pierre
>
> On 27-Aug-06, at 11:24 AM, Anjo Krank wrote:
>
>> Last year when I asked about this - it was about Pierre's site,
>> commenting the WO docs - I got the "Apple will defend it's IP to
>> the last man standing, and we don't you dare mess with us!
>> Harrrh!" response.
>>
>> I don't really believe their position has changed so much this year.
>>
>> Cheers, Anjo
>>
>>
>> Am 27.08.2006 um 19:52 schrieb Mike Schrag:
>>
>>> Daryl Lee actually talked about this as a possibility at WWDC,
>>> but this would be a copyright violation at the moment, so I
>>> recommend that you do NOT do this. We really can't host it on
>>> the WOLips site if you do, at least. If and when Apple approves
>>> the use of their content for this, we can, but we have to get a
>>> release from them first.
>>>
>>> ms
>>>
>>> On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Dustin Withers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not much for writing documentation but there is quite a big
>>>> thread over in WebObjects Dev about the lack of Apple docs for
>>>> WOLips. So I was wondering if it would be possible for me to
>>>> take Apples beginning WebObjects docs (ex. http://
>>>> developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/Web_Applications/
>>>> index.html )
>>>> and re-write them for WOLips. I would be completely copying
>>>> Apples docs for the most part so I don't know if it would be
>>>> legal. Also I would be doing it for the WOLips project and
>>>> posting it to the WOLips wiki so I don't know if it would cause
>>>> problems for the project. I'd like to do this for the Open
>>>> WebObjects movement and for myself to learn.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> -dustin
>>>
>>
>>
>
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