On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:31:56PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Martin Wheeler <msw@startext.demon.co.uk> writes: > > > And to those who would say: "There's no difference between software and > > documentation" I would reply -- sorry, but you really know nothing about > > writing; specifically, _why_ writers write. > > Documentation *must* change to adapt to software, if the software can > change. > *When* documentation applies to software. Gosh, has nobody thought of Debian distributing documentation that does _not_ apply to documentation? Sample: - the Project gutenberg texts (not that their license is currently free) - the licenses under /usr/share/common-licenses - the History of the Debian Project - the documentation that makes up an encyclopedia (if any such thing would be at some time available for Debian to use) People, software _needs_ documentation. Documentation does not need, at all, software to exist. Javi
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