On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400,
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think it's unreasonable for us to allow them to use Chrome
from the Google repository. I don't think it's unreasonable to allow
them to use Steam from the Valve repository. Device drivers get into
hazy territory, but I think it's a conversation worth having.
I think there is a difference between allow and promote.
I would be especially wary of promoting something like steam without
some strong warnings as steam is going to be doing some amount of spying
on you to enforce their DRM and is going to be significantly modifying
the graphics system and breakage in that area is not going to be
supportable by Fedora.
But I think that trying to actively discourage (read: prevent) users
from installing such software is harmful to our Mission of advancing
Free Software. In my view, it's okay to occasionally embrace
closed-source as a means to expose more people to open-source. Failing
to do so has a tendency to leave us labeled as zealots, which are
often ignored.
Does Fedora need to be that gateway OS? Maybe Ubuntu would be a better
intermediate step?
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