On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you did use the default about:home this would also help support >> your upstream partner Mozilla who gains some revenue from search. As >> far as I know Fedora does not generate any revenue for upstream while >> distros like Ubuntu does. >> >> Obviously that revenue is really important and helps Mozilla cover its >> operating costs. >> > > Sure, and I'm sure all of us in Fedora value Mozilla's contribution to > our ecosystem and the open web, but having about:home by default might > be problematic as it conflicts with our values of FOSS - it basically > promotes and endorses Google, a thing that is morally questionable and > that I'm not even sure if we are legally allowed to do. We already have a Google search option in firefox. And have access to Google services in different places / applications. So no there is no legal issue here. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
