Re: GNOME and the free software movement



On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:14 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
> I'm not sure if these questions are closely related to board
> responsibilities, but anyway. It's probably good to know what candidates
> think about colateral aspects as well.
> 
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:23 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> > To build awareness among GNOME _users_, what do candidates think about
> > putting an "About free software" button, by default, in the "Help" memu?
> 
> Honestly, I think this would be almost futile.
Somewhere we can control is the help documentation served with yelp.
However I did not see (GNOME 2.16) any topic only about Free Software in
Help Topics, maybe Documentation Team should consider adding this topic
into GNOME Help. 

> 
> Isn't that Help menu being customized radically by each GNOME-based
> distribution? In my laptop the System > Help menu have 5 links, all of
> them pointing to Ubuntu stuff. No trace of what GNOME/upstream is
> offering there.
> 
> > Any better ideas?
> 
> Introducing free software in www.gnome.org . Considering users not aware
> about software freedom in our wgo target audience. Already working on
> this. 


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