On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 17:26:58 +0100, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently, since we moved on to Fedora.next, we've been working hard to make the OS as user friendly as we can - the OS must be easy to set up and use if we're to gain users, and gain market share in the process. But, what is the purpose of this drive to increase our market share? *Why* do we want more users? To beat other distributions in numbers? So that we can say we have more users than them?
I believe the reason is that contributors come from users and one way to get more contributors is to have more users.
The reason why we do not include non FOSS software seems to have changed from "because we want to only use FOSS - that is our mission" to "because including non FOSS software may risk RH, the company that backs us", somewhere along the line. While the latter is true, it distresses me to think that for some, this has now become the primary reason. The primary reason used to be "because we want our users to use FOSS as much as practically possible", and it is fortunate that this fit in perfectly with protecting RH. Surely, RH Legal should not be the the set of people stopping us from including non FOSS software??
I think you are confusing non-FOSS software with software covered by patents or otherwise illegal (DMCA or export controlled) to distribute in the USA. Much of that software is free but Fedora can't distribute it.
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