On 4 Dec, Walter Landry wrote: > I've already voted for this. I think that Invariant text is an > abomination. It is unfortunate that the GNU manuals may be booted > into non-free, but that is what happens when you forcefully interject > political commentary into technical documentation.
Right on! Between this and Henning's comments on the content of the invariant sections, I think it is important to notice that the GFDL, if used "properly", *insists* that the invariant sections be off-topic, and therefore a distraction and a waste of disk space (paper in the case where the documentation is printed) *at best*, so that the absolute very best thing you can get out of an invariant section is a distraction, an off-topic tangent, something that lowers the overall quality of the work. Even though I happen to agree with some of the political commentary in the GNU technical documentation, it remains political commentary and therefore off-topic in technical documentation. Stephen Ryan not a DD but I hope to be one someday when I grow up
