On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 20:51 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:36 PM, <herrmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How would you define a "proprietary web service"? > > > > Is google such a service ? The only open protocol used by connecting any app to any of their servers is http, xmpp etc. Everything behind is closed. So we remove firefox ? > > Exactly. We've been down this road. Anything which can view arbitrary > content can be used to interact with proprietary services. Do we not > ship the Exchange support for Evolution? Do we not include f-spot (I > realize it's not in the default spin) because it's able to export to > Flickr (Shotwell can too, BTW)? Where does it stop? Those aren't the same thing. When it comes to a twitter client we're not talking about 'arbitrary content', we're talking about an app whose sole purpose is to provide *specific* content to a *specific* service. If pino is neutral between twitter and identi.ca by default, as someone suggested, then I think it's clearly fine. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
