On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Not only that but in order to push FOSS and open standard you need to have some market share to have some weight. For instance Mozilla has some (could be better -- with more users) influence because of the large Firefox adaption. >> 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?? There is no law or legal issue that prevents shipping non FOSS software. The license can be non free but still allow for redistribution. The legal issue is about patents which also includes software released under FOSS licenses like for instance x264, ffmpeg etc. _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss
