-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 28/04/16 03:38, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > Finally: could you justify a free software project that promotes > software freedom prominently linking to and using a G+ profile for > the project? That depends on its intent and purpose. If Google+ (or Facebook, or any other thing like that) is used to advertise the project, then I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing. I consider it similarly to releasing free software to proprietary environments like Microsoft Windows. It's about reaching people. Preaching to the converted is largely ineffective.
As long as Google+ isn't the only (main) way of obtaining information on the project, I think it's fine. Just like I think it's fine for free software projects to be sold on Steam or Google Play Store, as long as it's available elsewhere too. The people who don't like Google+/Steam/whatever, i.e. the converted, will not obtain it from there anyway. But the people who use Google+/Steam/whatever, would likely not even have heard of the project if it weren't there. Maybe the project can limit the information on Google+ by primarily posting small updates with links to the full story, which is available on their free website? - -- Alexander [email protected] https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXIbZoAAoJENQqWdRUGk8BgeAP/R5mrIChSIlltXT2Ds5xW0Xs bwxPEUDwTLz1i0m1u4/8qSCa/o32w0hhFAJR0VgqNxwI5rmd89q+JhmSuQz4BBKf dMnkATMzkKywhpfXIX5+aO+EIH+NYZ2WOlJLmmlCLSN/+QAP8/Kh6yGBlHIX7iU+ +fdBBAWj7IBsEQHz/sjH5tagPNneGchb3Puh0bcJiSOJBuJkLQLP4icyvFDkLZk8 zkWUMDhKGwb2lU1U7uCCbA+Ne6tGBTsI06V9pYrMeUeKXw+bBh0LJ2H49BEG8uly QkcMcspEur3Mw2tJdxi9blMqVsMdVHTbXaaxq8sqNOUPIfqpPZ0Os92xiCR3trUG k9xRG8oD1Ol90ppHpSPleVGeWbyn2qIBYsk5DbkLwQQNQIpjutneNgNe0kw7QU0W kbNcGRqJzosWksn0OjMfh4JBqpJAzQVYGWKgFPKVPuSkEzfWWNbXHEZbluYL2iCm 4k5U8ZJtMhIGf50yxeHIpdU/un0voHpZ083soi4WcE1clpypTHP30dfU/o/M7ANl s40MgP7hdL2P3gkX0y+7jOlDVdmSDaLUGq32ijsZQLRcjBMcRnU44sU6QdAWgUjp OGSHriBGA1XuuvxrHuqTRBwk/12Gv3gdlGxZ9nHcFyS+JcPhKjXvj2mpi1AMmw1d NTevYezMy4cvnW6wnkYE =8CrE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
