On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I do understand that having multimedia support is important user wise,
and I'm more than happy to spend time trying to educate people - I'm
not in favour of any changes that encourage people to install software
that is not FOSS.
I don't think anyone is talking about non-free software. For instance vlc is completely Free Software, although i can't be included to our repos due to the current policy around codecs.
To be clear. I'm not saying we should include vlc to our repos, just clarifying that we are not talking about non-free software.
4) People should know what FOSS is about.
5) People should know what intellectual property rights are.
So the first point is covered as mentioned above. I agree about educating people about intellectual property but someone could argue that this can be done in an "automated" way inside Gnome Software. See for instance Hughes' post on how a user can make an educated decision about installing non-free software (in this case Chrome). Same thing can happen for non-free codecs. Gnome Software could deliver RPMFusion metadata.
You can't protect users freedom by removing freedom of choice.
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