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Re: linking to wix.com


From: Jose E. Marchesi
Subject: Re: linking to wix.com
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:34:04 +0200
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    > Hello,
    >
    > Recently, a link to wix.com was added to GNU coding standards:
    >
    > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 08:43:58PM +0000, Brandon Invergo wrote:
    >> +<p>The extreme case is that of web sites which depend on nonfree
    >> +Javascript code even to <em>see</em> the contents of the pages.  Any 
site
    >> +hosted on <a href="wix.com">wix.com</a> has this problem, and so do 
some other sites.
    >
    > Our link checker reported that the link is broken; I think
    > if we really want a link to that site, we should do it like
    > <a href="http://wix.com";>wix.com</a> or so; if we don't want,
    > why just not leave wix.com in plain text without any tags?
    
    wouldn't we better to not have this link at all?
    
Indeed.  It seems like a bad idea to refer a specific domain that could
change its contents anytime, or just disappear like in this case.





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