On 2004-07-01, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Graham wrote:
>
>> [I speak for my original document rather than Daniel's subsequent
>> modifications]
>
> I'm not questioning the need for the existence of the original! :-)

No, not _that_ original, he's talking about _his_ original.

>>> Yours is presumably a derivative of this?
>> 
>> It's not a derivative since I started from scratch. But it covers some
>> similar topics.
>
> Of course your document isn't a derivative - his is of yours :-)

Well yes actually, but you've misunderstood. :)  Did you read the bug?

James filed a bug saying that a document was needed, and wrote an original
document from scratch (either unaware that the doc on the site existed, or
just wanting to write something with a different focus for a different
purpose) - let's call that A.

Daniel noted that a somewhat similar document existed on the site already,
which is the original you're thinking of - let's call that B.

The document that started this thread is something that Daniel derived by
taking the web original (B) and incorporating elements from James'
original (A), to come up with C.

You questioned the need for changing B into C. James is talking about what
motivated him to write A initially, before Daniel mixed A and B together
to come up with C (which wasn't James' original intent).

-- 
Michael
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