Hi Jay, *, On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:26 AM, planas <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unless someone is willing to spend the time and money to properly > research the US legal issues, the safest course is avoid any chance of > putting us into a possible legal crosshairs. I have neither. The problem > is that no one has come forward who is US attorney and knowledgeable on > software related issues to advise us. MS could consider LO as a direct > competitor to MSO and thus would look for our legal blunders committed > out of ignorance of US law. > > It may be more tedious for us to make sure our screenshots do not show > anything that would imply a Windows OS but it is safer. I doubt any > Linux distro would be upset if their desktop was identifiable in one of > our screenshots. In fact a subtle plug could made by saying all the > screenshots were made on various Linux distros. Many Windows users think > we are command line using dinosaurs and would be surprised to see a > vaguely familiar desktop.
Well, if one *were* to accept that the risk might possibly exist in the US, I somehow *feel* that Microsoft would be much less likely to succeed in such hypothetical action in European courts. Also, certainly in Europe, Microsoft would be likely to attract loud criticism and incite hostile activism in doing so. But, even if one were to avoid Windows screenshots to the greatest extent possible (it being difficult to produce good Windows installation guides - for example - without taking screenshots under Windows), I still would not like to see the English docs team and website team taking its screenshots purely under Linux/Unix. What about the Macintosh platform? I'd certainly like to encourage more involvement from Mac users. Also, in response to a conversation taking place currently on the Design mailing list (the which list I'm CC'ing), it's my personal feeling that it is not especially beneficial to ensure that all screenshots look identical (in terms of the theme used). Nor do I personally feel it's particularly beneficial to ensure that all screenshots be taken using a theme based on colors from the LibreOffice Design/Marketing pallet. An English documentation contributor's guide has been developed with rational recommendations for the taking of screenshots, and I think it largely addresses the issues that really matter in terms of their usability/suitability. However, I feel that we should make it as easy as possible for new English docs and website contributors to get involved, and not set-up unnecessary requirements in terms of software used and GUI environment. And I also feel we should *celebrate* the possible diversity of OS and GUI for running LibreOffice, and need not shun variety of colors and themes in screenshots either for English LibreOffice documentation or for LibreOffice websites. Anyway, this is just to make clear my own POV on the subject one final time. Thanks for reading, if you did. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted