On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:17:16AM -0400, Eric H. Christensen wrote: >> That's great that these companies contribute to FOSS projects. I'm less >> likely to complain about services that are developed as FOSS that they are >> commericalizing. Making it easier for our users to start using their >> closed projects, however, is not okay. It does not forward our cause for >> FOSS. Otherwise we could lump Microsoft into that group since they have >> made contributions to FOSS projects (including the kernel) in the past. > > So, from the three issues that I identified in the board ticket > (presentation of proprietary web services as applications, curation of the > list of services, applications interacting with proprietary services in > general), it seems like you are really more interested in the _second_ part: > the selection and curation of the list. Not _necessarily_ whether the > website code (either frontend or backend) is free / open source, although > you consider that an important factor. Be careful. You actually just lumped your items 1 and 2 together there. Item 1 is essentially selection. Item 2 is basically curation, or the process in which selected items are added to the list and maintained. josh _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
