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Documentation Dearth Dooms Open Source Projects

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 25, 2014

One of the essential draws to open source software should be superior product documentation. Well-written user guidelines are a key strategy that software developers should use to increase an open source project’s growth and user adoption.

All too often, programmers finish their last line of code and shove the open source software out the door — or, more realistically, post it on their website waiting for users to flock to its greatness.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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