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I wonder if you can write tech docs with storybook

I was reading Linux Journal today during lunch and there was an article on this software. Maybe RAP or Rui Zinc are using it... ;-)

http://storybook.intertec.ch/joomla/

Storybook - Organize Your Novel

Open Source Novel Writing Software for Novelists, Authors and Creative Writers.

About Storybook

Storybook is a free (open source) novel-writing tool for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing books, novels or other written works.

Storybook assists you in structuring your book
Store all information about your characters and locations in one place. Then, use the included Storybook features for managing chapters, scenes, characters and locations. A simple interface is provided to enable you to assign your defined characters and locations to each scene and to keep an overview of your work with user-friendly chart tools.

 
Storybook is a freely distributed program and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Site Administrators may use the PAD file.

www.novelist.ch | storybook.intertec.ch | www.intertec.ch

Open Source Innovation

My boss asked me the other day: "Where did open source software innovate?".
I was not pleased with my answer. After all, it's hard to talk with a Microsoft acolyte.

Let's make a list.

1. The MVCC database which Postgres supports since forever and the kings of the hill have recently discovered.

2. The BSD operating system popularized TCP/IP

3. Sendmail 

4. BIND

5. ping

6. BSD itself

FredBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD

7. AMQP 

8. Recognition from big tenders

9. Ruby and Ruby on Rails

10. Perl

11. PHP

12. Couchdb, mongodb, hadoop, pig, hbase and the NOSQL movement

13. IETF RFC and proper implementations like qmail, djbdns and others

14. Languages to learn and earn: Haskell, Scheme, Go, Scala, Python, Erlang, Lua

15. New browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Chromium

16. The agile manifesto and software development software

17. Git, Mercurial, Fossil, Bazaar, Monotone, Subversion, ...

18. Apache HTTP server

19. The GNU project

20. Academia at large, since most open source was developed at Universities. Not anymore, for the win.

This is the first take. I should get more assertive on this subject.