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Re: [directory-discuss] Free Software Replacements


From: David Hedlund
Subject: Re: [directory-discuss] Free Software Replacements
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:47:18 +0100
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On 2018-01-10 23:44, David Hedlund wrote:


On 2018-01-10 21:59, John Sullivan wrote:
David Hedlund <address@hidden> writes:

On 2018-01-10 21:46, John Sullivan wrote:
David Hedlund <address@hidden> writes:

* https://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html to
https://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows-only.html

Why? Several programs on that page are not Windows only.

-john

Exactly, only Rufus
<https://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html#Rufus> has to be listed
on https://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html, the rest of them can
in theory be remove from that page because they are already listed at
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/User:David_Hedlund/Free_software_replacements
since they are available for GNU/Linux too.
I see. I'm not convinced that it's a good idea -- I think there are some
advantages to having a specific, simplified, neatly curated list of
Windows-compatible free software, at a URL that has existed for many
years. Even if it means presenting some of the same info in two places.

-john


https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/User:David_Hedlund/Free_software_for_macOS is focused on a single OS like

https://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html. The main advantage with the FSD is that anyone can edit it, more freedom to the people!

RMS asked me to gather info about free software for macOS, so https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/User:David_Hedlund/Free_software_for_macOS should be merged to https://www.gnu.org/software/for-macos.html if we later decide that we don't want a FSD page for it.




I forgot to mention; 1) the FSD page can of course be Protected from standard user accounts. 2) I think the FSD is better suited for this task than gnu.org because it's dedicated to free software pages.



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