[Wikipedia-l] Re: Thank you, Poland!

Sun Jan 16 19:48:00 UTC 2005

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Hi Ashar,

we had the same debate about the FFII campaign against software patents
in general. ("Thank you, Poland!" in a way is the result of this
campaign).

I can think of two maybe good ways to work around the POV probleme with
banners like this one:

- make decision about banners part of the skins/themes, so one could
select the "GNU EFF theme" including such banners (or the "Corporate
World theme", for the other side).

- Don't use the banner, but point out in our article about [[Wikipedia]]
(and in some articles in the Wikipedia:namespace) how Wikipedia is using
open source software and how this is only possible without corporate
software patents. And of course: have a good article about [[Software
Patent]]s and explain there the "Thank you, Poland!" banner (I haven't
looked how it looks at the moment).

Till

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>NSK wrote:
>> There is a new initiative regarding software patents with the
>> name "Thank you, Poland!" at http://www.thankpoland.info . There
>> are banners you can use at http://www.thankpoland.info/banners.h
>> tml . RMS' FSF/GNU already supports the initiative by displaying
>> a banner at http://www.gnu.org . My site also supports "Thank
>> you, Poland!". I suggest that you should also do that, by
>> placing their banner on your main page.

>Hello,

>I personally like the idea, I even proposed to put a "get firefox"
>icon on every page :o)

>One trouble is that we need NPOV and this is maybe too european
>centric.

>cheers,

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