Re: [gNewSense-users] Sugestion on Website

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 14:54 +0100, Benjamin Webb wrote:
> >  While the purpose of gNewSense is to provide a completely free operating 
> > system, it is not the goal to explain in details the philosophy of free 
> > software. As such, I recommend linking GNU and FSF articles to provide a 
> > brief explanation of what free software is about. RMS's writings are more 
> > than sufficient and easy enough to read for even beginners to the free 
> > world.
> 
> Yes, it makes sense to provide links to places that already expalin
> the issues. However, some of the GNU and FSF texts may go over some of
> the newer people's heads. I would suggest a site, that is currently in
> development, called getFreedomware.org Although this site is not up
> yet, it will be very similiar to http://www.softwareliberty.com/. I'll
> probably post to this list again when the site is actually up and
> running.

A nice susinct paragraph to acompany the links to the FSF/GNU would
probably be ideal - not enough to cause more confusion, but enough to
break the ice.
kk

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