On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 20:42 +1000, André Wyrwa wrote: > Hei, > > just having a thought about these kind of business approaches... > > Would it make sense to write a Firefox extension that acts as a > "phishing" filter kind of thing for distributors that violate OSS licences? > > I'm imagining something that pops up a little note saying "this site > asks you to pay for something you could have for free here: .... ". > > Of course this is kind of a self-contained approach, because Firefox > users usually are already a bit more OSS aware and the majority of > mislead users potentially use IE to surf the net, right?
But not a bad idea because you only need a few new FF users to say hey this is neat, it warns you about rip offs and so they tell their friends who might then install FF because its a useful feature. Snag is if it could have legal implications if it was implied that someone's site was violating a license when it wasn't. What would be useful would be to inform anyone visiting any site selling or supporting proprietary software that there was a free alternative at ...and we recommend you take a look. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
