On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 14:19:48 -0500, mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Christian Fredrik Schaller > <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <snip> > What I meant with my comment was that we want this to be a positive push > for free software alternatives, > not a 'your an asshole for using non-free software' because that detracts > from the goal of promoting free software. > > > These goals are not mutually-exclusive. We should be able to provide some > education on free software in a prominent and meaningful way, without shaming > the user or making it difficult to install the software. Thanks for explaining this in such a clear way :) > > Strawman proposal: I'm imagining a moderately-sized red banner that says > something along the lines of "This software does not respect your freedom. <a > href="...">Learn more...</a>", which would be hard to miss, but also not so > large that it gets in the way or slows down the user. Currently the little red > Proprietary license tag is easy to ignore and doesn't mean much. Kalev showed > me a screenshot showing the existing "Learn more..." link in the software > sources dialog, but that's somewhat buried and very easy to ignore. This would be a nice start - is something like this doable? -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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