Peter Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Peter Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > We do care about free software, we even treat documentation like >> > software. Something that the FSF doesn't even do. >> >> Uh, what kind of logic is that? >> >> "We care about children, we even treat dogs like children." > > Your leap of logic, while very colourful, implies that documentation > is entirely different from software.
Code is intended to be run on a computer. Documentation is intended to be perused by a human. Those are very different things, and treating them the same is a deliberate decision. > Since we treat both programs and documentation as "software", your > analogy doesn't hold water. Next you'll tell me that you can make hamburgers from eggs by putting them through a meat grinder. Things do not magically become the same just because you decide to behave as if they were. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
