Hello !
I tried to include here also your comments...
On 09/29/2010 05:04 PM, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
Notes for the guideline:
- better talk "software" instead of "product"
Done
- we should change it so our goal is 1) that they remove the advertisement 2) that we give pdfreaders.org as example that there are others. 3) explain why Free Software is vendor neutral.
Included it in the 2nd paragraph.
*There is still a need to draft the paragraph on why Free Software is better for society...*
Notes for the letter:
- The letter is too long.
I attached a (slightly) shorter version
It also starts a bit boring... so people might
not read it until the end.
- 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://..."
Done Than make clear that this kind of commercial
for gratis software is nevertheless commercial
Done (perhaps we could use
the car analogy with the testdrive).
Not sure where to put it, and even if it is clear, I think it is not formal enough for one letter to one institution. Furthermore, I have too much difficulties to keep it short to have the possibility to include it ;)
- Make clear that Free Software is also about buisiness
I'm not sure it is better in the second version, can you tell me your feeling about this and if it is not, point where I should best elaborate on this point ?
- Explain Open Standards and that it should not be necessary to have commercials for PDFs.
This I have great difficulties to do...
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.
Removed :)
- We should aim to make the campaign page text shorter.
I already ommented this point... and didn't see how to make things shorter now. What could be good however would be to have a possibility to link directly to the list of reported bugs, skipping the explanation for when we need to refer only to the list, and not necessarily to the campaign (namely in the letter)
Comments are, as always, welcome !
Best