On 7/19/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Helping Fluendo sell proprietary software is WELL outside of the ideology of Fedora.
Is the issue the selling or the proprietariness of it? We already have examples of plugins that sell things (magnatunes plugin in rhythmbox.. arguably proprietary since its NonCommercially licensed content, depends on what shade of grey you prefer with your cereal) and plugins which allow the installation of proprietary software (firefox's extensions) i don't know if there is an obvious line that gets crossed by having a technology that makes it possible to buy proprietary stuff at the users discretion. I'd be more concerned about exclusivity of providing a pre-baked vendor-list. Is there a middle ground here, where we can create an enabling technology that users can then register new vendors against but that we don't have to pre-populate the vendor list in the official fedora spins? We could easily pre-populate such a technology with our own righteous propaganda and then perhaps clue people in on how to search for additional vendors who know how to register against the system. -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
