[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) wrote on 07.08.03 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Additionally, the FSF > >is not alone by claiming software isn't the same thing as > >documentation; international agreements and most countries worldwide > >make a distincion between how software and other copyrighted stuff is > >protected by law. > > You're muddling things. Software != "computer programs". It is not? I certainly can't come up with an example that is one and not the other. > How many of them refer specifically to "software", which is a broader > category than "computer programs"? What difference is that? > We can admit that there is a distinction between "computer programs" and > "documentation", while still insisting that documentation on a disk or > in memory is "software". Or we can insist that documentation on a disk or in memory is NOT "software". Because it really is not. MfG Kai
