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[Nick Moffitt]

begin  Rick Moen Lives Three Hours from Nowhere  quotation:
> Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick@zork.net):
> > In reality, it's INTENDED to be for nontechnical philosophical
> > musings and opinion.  
> 
> Thus the "D" in GNU FDL.

	The EMACS manual contains essays by RMS.  He would rather
these be invariant sections.

	There is no "D" in Invariant Sections.

> > The idea is to avoid people editing the words of RMS to
> > misrepresent him.  This has long been one of RMS's examples of
> > "why you shouldn't be able to just change EVERYTHING willy-nilly".
> 
> I hadn't thought it necessary to belabour the distinction between
> technical documentation and personal essays.  Consider it done.

	It is the intention behind the invariant sections clauses of
the GFDL.

> For technical doucmentation, as you know from the debian-legal
> discussion, invariant sections not only aren't clearly required, but
> also create hazards of their own.

	Absolutely.  Hence the "obnoxious advertising clause" quality
of the things.  In fact, it's much worse than that.

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