[FM Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 26, Issue 4

[Bill McConnaughey]

Mea culpa, apropos logging in to make one minor formatting change in
CommandLineIntro. Actually, I'm reading through it and fixing minor errors
and improving (I hope) explanations as I go along. I'm also thinking about
a new section on making a commandline interface for a new program, using
readline and such.

I can see how there could be tension between maintaining the FM brand vs. 
having complete freedom to present FM material together with proprietary 
stuff. Maybe the boundary should look like this:  FM makes manuals that 
only talk about FLOSS, and also has some sort of cross-reference index on 
the website listing software from all sources that provide a given 
capability. That would help people who want to migrate to FLOSS, and it 
would help the free software community to avoid falling into isolation and 
ignorance. And consistent with the FM philosophy, there would be no 
attempt to restrict how people use FM material elsewhere.