On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > We wish we weren't and we want to learn from our mistakes rather than > > repeat them. In the case of the start page I believe it was a > > concession combined with the hope that it would be replaced with a > > free solution in the future. It at the very least should not used as a > > shining example of the way Fedora does things. > > Is Google really that bad or are some people being a bit too > principled? Couldn't we think of the market leader of free-as-in-beer > search engines as a commodity and just use it while it's free? I don't > fret about running my computer on open source electricity. > > I think anyone who shudders at the thought of supporting Google by > using their search should be condemned to use something that behaves > like the RH's bugzilla search for the rest of their career... :) > We have a free software policy, while we continue to revise it, google's search engine is clearly against that policy: http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/csi/free-software-policy/en-US/html-single/ -Mike -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
