#57: Seeking Council feedback/input on draft third party software policy -------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: workstation | -------------------------+--------------------- Comment (by uraeus): I understand, but a tool meant to help you search for stuff need to help you do that to remain useful. If you everytime you searched for China in Google only got results relating to Taiwan or got results about Canada when searching for USA, with a little notice at the bottom saying 'click here to view less ethical search results' you would probably stop using Google at some point. Which is why I been advocating the labelling as a better approach than trying to distort search results. As it lets us communicate our views without giving people random search results. So to follow up on my example above instead of returning Canada when people search for the USA, we instead return USA but put up labels like 'No universal healthcare' and 'Practices death penalty'. Which is still making a clear political statement, yet returning information about the thing people actually searched for. Replying to [comment:40 mattdm]: > Replying to [comment:39 uraeus]: > > And to some degree if people search for Chrome then prioritizing Chromium could maybe be justified although I am already feeling we are close to being annoying with such a move. And it also feels very Chrome specific, as the number of 'non-free' applications with a open source twin is a very small club. And of course returning for instance Web or Firefox on a 'Chrome' search is without a doubt crossing the line from trying to gently push people in the right direction to just being obnoxious. > > I think reasonable people can disagree on where exactly that line is. A gentle push that no one notices is... too gentle. Personally, I'm willing for us to err on the "obnoxious" side if that best advances the mission of promoting free/open source software. Of course, ideally, we have a solution that's both non-obnoxious *and* pro-free-software. In the real world, there's a balance somewhere; in finding that balance, communicating the preference for free software should be a primary objective, not something done only if it can be done without annoying anyone. > -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/57#comment:41> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
