On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Sandro Santilli <s...@kbt.io> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Jody Garnett wrote: > >> How much of your initial concern was providing a link? Or is it just >> displaying the name (switching to MapInfo for the example here). It would >> be kind of nice if the it behaved like a keyword, and linked to the project >> page short listing all the projects that one can migrate to from MapInfo. > > It's different degrees of annoyance. I guess a brand-less and > link-less list of names of proprietary products would not be too > "offensive" for me (assuming spam filtering lets it pass) but I'd > still prefer an hidden keyword. Something that you never see written > but is recognized by the search engine to give you back a similar > software: you search for <proprietary> you get <free>. > > The "like Photoshop, only better" motto I like even when it contains > the name because it explicitly bashes it :)
That would work very good if we use for example google ads. But still, for people who are lookiing for "how to migrate to FLOSS", a non-linked name could be useful. I mean: they exist, they are there, they are a fact. We don't need to promote them to be able to say "if you already use this, you can move to this". And now I realize I put a link on the GeoNetwork page just because I copypasted from another project :) Bad María, bad. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss