Web site page thought

[Billy Crook]

You could eliminate some redundancy by linking to the FSF.  Also, due to the
already low perceived dollar cost of any chat client, using the term Free
Software rather than open source would not have less of its usual negative
sideaffect of people gravitating towards the monetary meaning of 'free'.
Good time to point out that users have freedoms with pidgin that they do not
with other IM clients.

On 10/11/07, H. Bons <H.Bons at student.rug.nl> wrote:
>
> I can only support this. :)
>
> Hylke
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:23:01 -0500
>   Kevin Stange <kevin at simguy.net> wrote:
> > Going over the email from "Charliep" it's clear that he
> >doesn't
> > understand open source very well.  This is a discussion
> >we have had
> > countless times in the past with other users.  I was
> >thinking that
> > perhaps we should add a page to the web site in the
> >"About" section
> > which specifically deals with and explains some of these
> >things:
> >
> > - What is the GPL?
> > - What is open source?
> > - Why is pidgin open source?
> > - Why is pidgin licensed using the GPL?
> > - What are the "costs" of open source?
> > - What are the "benefits" of open source?
> > - Other statements and explanations of why users can't
> >expect to
> > influence change merely by being vocal, why the project
> >is primarily
> > developer and contributor driven, and how those who
> >don't contribute
> > code can still help influence direction to some degree.
> > - Why our priorities won't always be exactly in line
> >with the vocal
> > members of the user base.
> > - Why it is okay with us if you don't use Pidgin.
> >
> > The idea would be to provide a clear and consistent
> >explanation and
> > answer to users (that could be linked for anyone that
> >brings it up) that
> > miss the difference between not caring about our users
> >and having to
> > prioritize based upon those who are willing and able to
> >participate in
> > development (for sanity, time, maintainability, etc).
> >
> > I can write the text, or someone else can. :)
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>
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