Linked by Preston Liam Whels on Wed 16th Apr 2003 18:07 UTC
Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Despite a lot of nitpicks people are having, it's a well-written article. One can argue whether it'd normally be appropriate for OS News, but given the rash of odd "My OS rulez" guest editorials and the influx of, well, generally none too informative Linux distribution reviews, it probably is for right now. People are just getting nerdy.
But I will make one nitpick: If you mean "technical journalist," then in the future please say that, not "technical writer." A technical writer is someone who writes technical documents, like operation manuals or program specifications. It's a job title in precisely the same way "software engineer" is. Technical writing is as distinct a field from journalism as fiction writing is. I may be the only person who was thrown off by this (I've done professional writing, including both technical documentation and articles for technical publications, in the past), but it definitely left me scratching my head for a while.