Re: [Bug-gnupedia]External Links in New Window

[Aaron Swartz]

Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote:

> If we allow external links, there is the risk that it
> will link to a non-free site, one that contravenes our
> policies. That is unacceptable, as has been stated
> many a time by RMS, Hector, and the rest of us.

Perhaps I don't understand why this is unacceptable. Am I not allowed to
mention Amazon.com in my articles, because some computers will interpret
that as a "link"? Are my articles not allowed to include the forbidden
characters: http://www.*.com/ ? What's so bad about mentioning other sites.
Surely, if we were building a great encyclopedia -- the task we seem to have
thrust on Nupedia -- we would want to not include links, but I don't see why
they can't be in the great, open, uncensored GNE.

I guess I still don't even understand what the GNE is...

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