Hi RMS, On Mittwoch 28 Mai 2003 00:40, Richard Stallman wrote: >>> A political essay is (typically) written by certain >>> persons to persuade the public of a certain position. >>> If it is modified, it does not do its job. So it makes >>> sense, socially, to say that these cannot be modified. > >> Then, why are there so many political essays under the >> GFDL, without invariant sections? > > You'd have to ask their authors about that. I won't criticize > their decisions, but I don't see a reason to do it.
I think that my question was not clearly phrased. I do not want to know why people do something that does not make sense in your oppinion. What I am interested in is how you come to the conclusion that it is more difficult (or even impossible) to persuade the public of a certain position with a modifyable essay than it would be with a non-modifyable one. I do not understand the mechanism that is supposed to make the modifyable text less persuasive. So, can you construct an example? cu, Thomas }:o{# -- http://www.bildungsbande.de/~sloyment/ "Look! They have different music on the dance floor..."