Hi,
>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marcus> You know that it is my opinion that the same reasoning counts
Marcus> for technical documents and maybe even for other data
Marcus> entities. If you didn't know it, well, then I say it here.
Marcus> You asked for reasons why for example standards should comply
Marcus> to the same guidelines. The reasons are the same, IMHO. I
Marcus> can't understand why you are arguing here. You asked, and I
Marcus> gave.
That's so? Well, here are my refutations to the so called
reasons you gave for standards.
Marcus> a) Without documentation, you can't use the software.
Does not apply to a standard. You use the standard by reading
it -- nothing has to be modified. A standard is not documentation for
a program.
Marcus> b) Documentation and software are often integrated, for
Marcus> example in context help system.
Does not apply to a standard -- it is not embdded in any code
or a program.
Marcus> c) Source code documentation (for libraries, for example), are often
Marcus> directly written in the source code and automatically
Marcus> generated.
Irrelevant when what we are talking about is a standards
docuent. No library is involved.
Marcus> d) Although you choose to ignore it completely --- I think
Marcus> *all points* of the dfsg apply to documents for the *same
Marcus> reasons*. The points have to be interpreted slightly
Marcus> different. I put my personal interpretation in my posting
Marcus> and in the web (known adress).
Realy? Why? You have offfered nothing that has any relevance
to a standard. You have relevant points for documentation for a
program -- but you have said nothing that justifies why a standard
should be mutable.
Getting peeved and yelling does not make reasons appear where
there were none.
If you think you have given *any* reasons that apply to a
standards document, please repeat them. Remember -- standards
documents. Not documentation for a program.
If you have none, I roundly reject the ntion that standards
need be modifiable.
manoj
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