Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Question for Nupedia

[Rob Scott]

I think it would all be a lot better if nobody can
link to any site in content.   This is meant to be an
Encyclopedia (or at leat information resource), not a
place for people to link to their home website or get
publicity.    It will just turn into the www if this
is allowed, it will just seem like personal webspace.


--- John Goodwin <address@hidden> wrote: > Are you
planning to implement RMS's exclusionary
> rule, the thing he calls "the
> most important" rule for content?  That is, are you
> planning to prohibit your
> content from linking to non-free websites, such as
> the big university projects?
> 
> To me, it looks like RMS wants to build a "Gated
> Community" that can act as a
> safe haven for free text and populate it with
> something worthwhile; and
> nupedia.org wants to make a very high quality FDL'd
> encyclopedia.  These are two
> very worthy, but mutually incompatible, goals.  My
> uneasiness is in assuming
> that nupedia.org in any way fulfills RMS's
> announcement,
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/announcement.html
> 
> Without the exclusionary rule, there can be no gated
> community.  If you're not
> planning to implement that, then we have two
> different projects here and they
> definitely need different names.
> 
> =googol=
> 
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