Docs: the editing non-goal meant the platform, not the capability #518

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Follow-up to #517, per the product owner's clarification: "collaborative editing" in ARCHITECTURE §1 was always shorthand for the Nextcloud-style collaboration platform — editor, chat and groupware fused into the file server — never the ability to edit files that live on the platform. So the WOPI integration is not a "second deliberate carve-out"; it sits inside "files, and nothing else" from the start, because Cairn ships zero editor code and the editor is a separately deployed service.

Changes: "Collaborative editing" leaves the head of the exclusion list (the standalone items each stand on their own), and the carve-out sentence becomes a clarification note recording the sharpened meaning. README's non-goals parenthetical already reads correctly under this framing and is untouched.

Follow-up to #517, per the product owner's clarification: "collaborative editing" in ARCHITECTURE §1 was always shorthand for the Nextcloud-style collaboration *platform* — editor, chat and groupware fused into the file server — never the ability to edit files that live on the platform. So the WOPI integration is not a "second deliberate carve-out"; it sits inside "files, and nothing else" from the start, because Cairn ships zero editor code and the editor is a separately deployed service. Changes: "Collaborative editing" leaves the head of the exclusion list (the standalone items each stand on their own), and the carve-out sentence becomes a clarification note recording the sharpened meaning. README's non-goals parenthetical already reads correctly under this framing and is untouched.

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one-shot: reword the editing non-goal per the actual intent (platform, not capability) f77b868444

docs: reword the editing non-goal to its actual intent

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'Collaborative editing' in the section-1 exclusion list was always
shorthand for the Nextcloud-style collaboration PLATFORM (editor,
chat, groupware fused into the file server), not for the ability to
edit files that live on the platform. The #517 alignment framed the
WOPI integration as a second deliberate exception; per the product
owner's clarification it is not an exception at all - editing
platform-resident files through a separately deployed WOPI editor,
with zero editor code in the binary, sits inside 'files, and nothing
else'. The list keeps its standalone items; the note records the
sharpened meaning.

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