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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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