discuss: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
Subject:
Re: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
18 Dec 2003 02:16:33 -0000
Message-Id: <1071713765.1113.56.camel@mysticchild>
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 07:16, rahul wrote:
> > It _is_ personally important to me; I believe that LDP is about
> > Documenting things in any way related to Linux. Oracle, StarOffice,
> > and other proprietary software that costs money are either things that
> > enable people to move to Linux, or in some cases are /the reason/
> > people move to Linux. Consider them advocacy. I personally am strongly
> > against putting them in a "non-Free" section, like second-class citizens.
>
> Segregation is not discrimination. Merging doesnt mean that the document
> does not have independant value. You are assuming things
I don't think it's necessary to put these types of documents into a
separate section. Documents really should be sorted by the current
category list we employ, with the exception of Guides and FAQs.
I feel this way because I'm considering the user experience. If I went
looking for a document on dual booting Linux with Windows, I'd expect to
find such a thing in the OS section. For applications, I'd be most
inclined to look in the correct software category based on the type of
program it is (for example, Oracle & Red Hat 9 under Database
Applications).
If the items are separated between free and non-free, that causes the
user to look in two different places; if it's not listed in the
"non-free" chances are they're going to take a stab at looking in the
main list, just to make sure. So it seems reasonable to keep them
grouped by the categories we already use.
Tab
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Tabatha Marshall
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