[Bf-webcontent] Some consistency mistakes, IMHO

[Fateh Slavitskaya]

Congratulations on taking the new site live :)

Agree that it would be nice to add GNU to the Linux download tab. 

But on the tagline point, while "open" shouldn't be used as a default
replacement for "free", it's not in itself a bad word that we have to
avoid. I find the rhetoric there to be nice and effective, clearly
identifying as free software. Saying both free and open works for
emphasis and to combat the ambiguity in english of the word
"free" (cost/liberty). It addresses people who might be more familiar
with the language of open source and not already versed in what "free
software" means apart from price, and is the most functional/inclusive
wording. I often have to communicate with people about these issues, and
for what it's worth, I always thought it was a great line!

Under the Donations and Sponsors block of
http://www.blender.org/get-involved/ I'd like to hyperlink the existing
references to donations page and e-shop. 

Francesco, unless I used the wrong pass, my staging wordpress account
might not have transferred to the live site? If you want to set me up,
I'll continue to do tweaks.

Fateh 


On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 00:29 +0000, Jorge Araya Navarro wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm very happy to see the new face of Blender 3D's website. However, I 
> notice just two consistency mistakes on the website.
> 
> The first one is related to the phrase: "Blender is 3D creation for 
> everyone, free to use for any purpose. Free Software, great community, 
> and 100% open". the last term "100% open" is already covered by the term 
> "Free Software", so we already are saying that Blender is Free Software, 
> software that you can use for whatever you want to (already said in the 
> first sentence, btw), available for you to modify and redistribute (for 
> free, and that is another thing already covered in the first sentence 
> too).
> So I propose to change the redundant term ", and 100% open." to ", and 
> powerful." or something alike.
> 
> Another consistency mistake that I notice is on the Download section of 
> the website. The download tab for GNU/Linux says "Linux" instead of 
> "GNU/Linux", which I suggest to say that instead of what we can read 
> there now.
> 
> Tux looks alone, why not place a GNU behind him? I know that it is a 
> webfont(?) or something alike, but I suggest to add the GNU behind Tux 
> just for the sake of completeness and consistency.
> 
> Thanks! :D
> 
> --
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