Re: [OT] free novels vs free software documentation

2003-05-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Mark Rafn wrote: [snip areas of broad agreement] I can't think of a freedom that is useful for program documentation that it not equally important for a novel. Likewise software itself - documentation. Modifiability. The subject of a novel is far more static than

[OT] free novels vs free software documentation

2003-05-15 Thread Mark Rafn
[I think we basically agree, so I've marked this OT] Documentation relating to software needs to be really free, in order that we can manipulate it in far more interesting ways (such as refcarding it, embedding it as online help, or updating it because of advances in the program it