From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Lawyer's evaluation
Date: 19 Sep 2003 08:16:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871xud8z7j.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1A07WE-0001Ba-Di@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I asked our lawyer to evaluate a recent version of the proposal.
...
> A statement that "Emacs is free software," and a button to get more
> information on free software seems possible to me.
Yeah, I agree -- in my mind, perhaps the _most_ important (important to
me, that is :-) thing to say while you've got the user's attention, is
`This is Free Software (as in freedom), there's a lot more of it, and a
great community to back it up. Wanna join?'
My version is a bit fanboyish sounding, but you get the idea.
A single short and concise paragraph at the start of the longer text
seems like the right place; I don't think it has to smoothly flow into
the rest.
Come to think of it, a similar statement in the emacs splash screen,
complete with clickable button to bring up a web browser (where that's
possible; I guess in windows it should always be) wouldn't be a bad
idea.
-Miles
--
Yo mama's so fat when she gets on an elevator it HAS to go down.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-18 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-18 22:44 Lawyer's evaluation Richard Stallman
2003-09-18 23:16 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-09-19 13:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-22 2:02 ` Miles Bader
2003-09-24 5:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-25 12:05 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-24 9:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-09-24 10:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-24 12:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-09-24 14:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-25 12:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-25 12:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-25 12:42 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-26 9:53 ` Richard Stallman
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