Info vs Man

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go 
with info pages instead of man pages?

I googled several times with different search terms, but didn't find 
much; this was probably the best hit I found:
http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/dtil/howto_9.html  

and it doesn't really address the issues.

Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better, 
although there was no definitive explanation as to why (or why not).

Anyone have any insight on this question?

If I were to write up some documentation for some application, would I 
want to create it as a man page, or an info page, or as both, or as some 
higher(/lower)-level format that then gets converted (by me/by viewer 
tools?), what?

(The Linux.com article at 
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/02/05/1651203 is what started my 
mind down this path.)

Thanks!

--
Kent