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Hi Matthias, thanks for your comments !
Before I work on including then in a second proposal, here some remarks : On 09/29/2010 05:04 PM, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Notes for the letter:
- The letter is too long. It also starts a bit boring... so people might not read it until the end.
I agree, I really have to work on my synthesis skills...
HOwever, I took the example of the Open letter there : http://www.fsfe.org/projects/browserbundling/letter-20091005.en.html
And it is exactly as long, and I thought that perhaps it would make sense to have both : a long letter online, as a manifesto, and a short version sent out.
- We should start with something like "we got a report that you are doing advertisements for companies on your websites... an example can be found on http://..." Than make clear that this kind of commercial for gratis software is nevertheless commercial (perhaps we could use the car analogy with the testdrive).
- Make clear that Free Software is also about buisiness
ok.
- Explain Open Standards and that it should not be necessary to have commercials for PDFs.
How do you mean that ? that you don't have to have commercials for standards ? Or that there should be an open competition for it is a standard and all are equally able to deal with it ?
Notes on campaign page: (this can be a bit more about the issues for society)
- First we want to commercial from governments for non-free software.
If they do commercials they should advertise Free Software which is
better for society.
- Do not use formulations like "We think", "We believe", etc. it weakens the point.
Ok.
- We should aim to make the campaign page text shorter.
In my view of the next campaign page, we would have the most circumstancial explanations there to counter all the criticisms that we have recieved per mail. For me it is the very place where we can explain our vision of the advertisings, of the role of government for free competition and the role of Free Software for society, so it would be in that sens more harmful to have a short but incomplete page rather than a long one... HOwever, the length of it makes it perhaps unclear.
Best regards - -- Maƫlle Costa Free Software Foundation Europe - intern im : maelle@jabber.fsfe.org