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From: | Felipe Sanches |
Subject: | Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Fwd: Please inform free distro maintainers |
Date: | Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:41:24 -0300 |
I'll re-include a segment of the quote I was commenting on:On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:57:24 +0100
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jason Self wrote:
> > Karl Goetz wrote ..
> >> This would mean adding text to a number of images which can't be
> >> translated without shipping a new background image per language. I
> >> question whether thats really what we should be doing - it feels
> >> quite imperialist (to me).
> > > It seems to me that it doesn't (necessarily) need to be a
> > > wallpaper although it
> > could be. It seems that it could also be messages that the
> > installer shows while running, or a web page that automatically
> > opens the first time they login, or...
>
> ... an "Examples" folder on the desktop, containing various sample
> files, including some of RMS' essays.
> [...] announce prominently on the screen, before login and on the
> default desktop after login, a prominent statement about freedom,None of these solutions provide a 'prominent statement' before logging
> such as “This system is freedom-respecting free/libre
> software” or something comparable
in. (You can't assume the person logging in was the person who
installed it after all, or that they sat and watched the system
install).
thanks,
kk
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