On 11/25/2010 11:03 AM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote: > Am 25.11.2010 08:27, schrieb Nicu Buculei: >> IIRC, there was no consensus reached. >> An important amount of people have concerns about us relying >> on/promoting a proprietary service. There are also voices saying some >> other projects receive money from Google for something like this. And >> other voices pointing to the little value of having a Google search when >> the default browser (Firefox) has the search box inside its UI. > 1) Switching to some more free/libre web search is a honorable idea, but > IMHO there is no service around which is nearly as stable and as > reliable as google, yahoo, bing and so on. Projects like yacy are good > efforts to offer independent ways of searching but with a start page for > new users we should have an eye on highest reliability. This is the Board decision to make and I remember all those points were raised in that discussion. > 2) That's right. Ubuntu is earning money from Google and even from > Microsoft for placing Bing second on the search field. I think that can > cut both ways: On the one hand you get money for your project and can > "do something good". But on the other hand you leave the noble goals a > bit behind or even sell a piece of your soul. ;-) > At the moment Fedora is promoting Google. But why not take money for that? Apparently we bring them an amount of users little enough to worth money. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
