Re: Gnomefiles.org

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:43 -0700, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> For now, I would like to a fix for this page:
> http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/
> that wrongly says that we "do not clearly identify some software that is not 
> free or open source." This is not true you see, we made more prominent the 
> difference in the license in 2006 when the Gnome guys of the time asked us 
> to do so in this very mailing list.

It does indeed now seem to use clear wording, for instance, on vmware.
Thanks. Of course RMS could strike at any time with more precise
demands.

So I've changed the text on that page. I've kept the text about GNOME
not endorsing GnomeFiles.org because _I_ doubt that we'd want "official"
infrastructure to be using closed source software on servers that we
can't admin. It is closed source, right?

> Then, maybe a link somewhere more prominently would be good, because now a 
> user has to click 3 times to get to the page that links to our site, and 
> that's from a page that has way too many links anyways. Maybe a more 
> prominent link somewhere would do the job, there's no need for a full banner 
> IMHO.

Yeah. http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/ used to be directly linked from
a right-hand vertical menu. Where is it even linked from now?

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