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

[Tom Chance]

GNE is open, it is uncensores, but it is also free. It
will not be part of anything that isn't free (though
people can make money from GNE is they wish, GNE just
won't endorse it). As such we cannot LINK to anything
that isn't free, though we can mention it. I know it
becomes quite close when you mention Amazon.com,
because that is almost a link, but we'll just have to
say it isn't because you have to type Amazon.com into
the browser. But with anything else, it won't be such
a problem. 

We simply cannot be linking to non-free material (and
in doing so endorsing it)!

Tom Chance


--- Aaron Swartz <address@hidden> wrote: > 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...
> 
> -- 
> [ Aaron Swartz | address@hidden |
> http://www.aaronsw.com ]
> 
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