On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 06:28:14PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Since you are ignoring all the discussion that has gone on > > before, you obviously have far more cogent arguments than have been > > advanced here before. I am eager to hear them. > > Web archives are painful to get through in lynx and I've had very serious > mail problems trying to deal with using earthlink's mail services in place > of my own. I've lost a lot of messages on the subject. I have been looking > for summaries. I haven't seen any labelled as such and haven't stumbled > across any not so labelled yet. Perhaps one is in order?
I have summarised once or twice. Manoj has once or twice. *please* go and read the archives. I'm not aware of them being painful in lynx. In fact, I just checked. They seem extremely easy to read in lynx. Marcus, Manoj, Drake and I [to name maybe the noisiest 4, maybe not - also Raul, Richard, etc., etc.] have all thought very hard about this issue, and written many thousands of words each on the subject. It is a courtesy to us to read them before attempting to explain your own thoughts on the issues. > > > Documentation for software > > Technical documentation describes the behaviour, usage, and > > configuration details about a specific piece of code. It may also > > be instructions about how to modify or extend the software. > > (Users manuals, etc) Examples include the GIMP Users Manual, the > > GCC Internals guide, any source-code written with "literate > > programming" tools, etc. > > This really should be with the package, when possible. If necessary, a case > by case analysis may be needed, but not for most things. If some portion of > documentation for software (ie the official perl FAQ thingie) is not > modifiable, there's probably a good reason for it. No reason to call it > non-free or even take it out of main. The perl FAQ being non-free is stupid. IMO, of course. Documentation should always be free. I think RMS's original email of the subject is in the archives of this thread. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
