On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 15:12 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > On 11/18/2014 02:55 PM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 11:15 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote: > >>>> I'm talking about the "advertisement" part. Some people seem to be > >>>> bothered by this alone. Tiles feature indeed promotes some websites, but > >>>> we already do that. > >>> > >>> No, actually we don't. We promote websites because we honestly think > >>> they're useful, not because we're paid to do so. > >> > >> That's irrelevant. Paid or not, promoting websites through tiles or > >> gnome-shell is the same form of advertisement. > > > > Money is not irrelevant. Paid advertising is how we wound up with > > pop-ups, hover ads, etc. The question is whether or not we can trust > > Mozilla to steer clear of such things. So far there seems to be no > > reason to trust Mozilla -- the ads are opt-out, they only sometimes > > respect DNT, and they are being pushed despite the backlash from > > Mozilla's community. > > This is a moral judgment, so it's irrelevant for making a policy > decision (from Fedora's point of view). As a community, we can certainly decide to base our policies on moral judgments we make, just as we can decide to base them on technical judgments. (or even a mix of both) For example, we don't allow nonfree software in Fedora, and I for one certainly hope it is not **entirely** a technical decision. -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
