Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Question for Nupedia

[Rob Scott]

No i wouldnt like it if sun or redhat or even slashdot
did it, i only thought of M$ because theyre the only
people i can think of who would try something like
that.

This has nothing to do with jewish or gay people
submitting articles,  even if M$ submitted an entry,
and contained no links (or 'propoganda'), sure, we
should let it in.

I just feel that the strength of an article should be
contained within that article, as a single entity,
rather than just a hub for web links, otherwise we may
as well be yahoo.   Thats all i was saying, i dont
know how you managed to get racism or homophobia into
that.


--- Krzysztof Kowalczyk <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rob Scott wrote:
> > 
> > I feel that the content of every article should be
> > within itself, not just referring to other
> material.
> > And i dont think people should be able to plug
> their
> > books etc., how far do we let them go? how soon
> would
> > M$ be writing an article on good user interfaces
> and
> > make a link to M$ homepage?
> 
> And what's wrong with that (beside that fact that
> you apparently don't
> like Microsoft)?
> Would Sun, Oracle or RedHat doing the same be ok
> with you?
> 
> What if X sends a good article about user interface
> and provides it
> under appropriate free license. Will you reject it
> when you find out
> that X is Microsoft? Will you reject it if you find
> out that X is Jewish
> or Gay because you don't happen to like Microsoft,
> Jewish or Gay people?
> 
> What your calling of greatest evil has to do with
> issue: should we allow
> external links or not?
> 
> The way I would look at this: if external links
> provide additional value
> then they should be in, if disadvantages of linking
> (and the only
> disadvantage I see is a *possibility* of "unethical"
> (whatever the
> definition of ethical one chooses to use)
> advertising are greater than
> advantages (pointing out sources of additional
> information) then they
> should be out.
> 
> Why not include links or even an ability for
> everyone to add links
> pertinent to an article and then provide a *user*
> with an option to
> either enable or disable displaying of links.
> Wouldn't that be more in
> line with "freedom"? Instead of making decisions for
> users  (people who
> learn from Gnupedia and are supposed to be the
> reason for the existence
> of the project) give them both ways and let them
> decide for themselves.
> If they decide that links are evil they'll turn them
> off. If they decide
> that they prefer to have links, so be it for them.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bug-gnupedia mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupedia


____________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie