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 > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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