On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 08:36 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > At the same time, we > regularly allow the packaging of software that can interoperate with > non-free software; we allow Pidgin and other IM clients to talk to > Google and AOL, we allow email clients to connect to Microsoft > Exchange, etc. The real problem is that every time a question comes up > against the Freedom Foundation, Fedora contributors diverge into two > armed camps: the hard-liners who believe that Fedora should never > under any circumstances work (interoperate) with proprietary services > and the the folks who believe that such a hard-line approach is a path > to irrelevance. I do like the sound of a Functional pillar -- independently of all else, it's a good word that starts with F and describes Fedora's mission -- but elevating it above the other pillars? If Functional was to be more important than Freedom, then shouldn't Fedora host a nonfree repository and install Adobe Flash by default? It would remiss not to do so, yet that would contradict our community's rough consensus that Fedora should not ship any nonfree software, so that can't be right. The current questions are mostly with regards to what can be displayed in GNOME Software, and boil down to two distinct points: 1) Is it permissible to promote nonfree desktop software in response to a user's search (i.e. software from non-Fedora repositories) by default? 2) Is it permissible to promote proprietary web applications (web pages that run in a chromeless web browser) in response to a user's search? The board has already decided that (1) is unacceptable, and this seems to have been (more or less) accepted by all parties. (2) is the topic currently under discussion. I should note that *even Richard Stallman* is fine with using proprietary web services; [1] is a good (short) read. I just do not think that displaying websites the user might be interested in conflicts with the Freedom pillar. Fedora has already proved that a fully-free desktop can be (relatively) successful, but a crusade against proprietary network services seems unlikely to succeed. [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html
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