Good insights, and not just software developers, really. We don’t like ads, sensationalism, or anything reeking of bullshit. If we have to talk to someone to find out the price, the product may as well not exist.
Good insights, and not just software developers, really. We don’t like ads, sensationalism, or anything reeking of bullshit. If we have to talk to someone to find out the price, the product may as well not exist.
some counter examples:
https://cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc10/tech/full_papers/Hunt.pdf
Those aren’t white papers. They are scientific papers.
White papers are written by companies as a marketing tool. The first two papers you linked above are written by universities and the last one by a research-focussed non-profit.
As per Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper
It’s a marketing presentation masquerading as a fake scientific paper.
While I’m not saying they don’t both exist, there are plenty of people writing the original definition for tech products, too.
And I’d argue that purely scientific papers are often written to promote products and viewpoints, too.
There are both
But product whitepapers are ads