On 2014-11-20, 16:17 GMT, Petr Viktorin wrote: > Every piece of Fedora is like that, and yet I don't see any > other software doing useless-for-me opt-out tracking. > (Also, who am I paying? All authors of Firefox, or only the Mozilla > employees?) How many multizillion LoC end-user applications able to compete with their proprietary opponents we have in Fedora? I know about one: LibreOffice, and a) as much as I like LibreOffice and its developers are for me one of the biggest heroes of the FLOSS universe, the reality is that they don’t keep that neck-to-neck run with Microsoft Office, b) I think it is possible we still wait when the development of LO gets to the similar state as Firefox and they will need to get some money to keep going. “End-user” is there because other large pieces of Linux are paid by companies (not least by Red Hat) who spends tons of money on their development. However, not enough people buy end-user software so the resources are distributed accordingly. How many people Red Hat employs for kernel and how many for Firefox? > Is there now an *obligation* to give back? Because there never has been > such a thing. Of course, there always was and is. “You were freely given, freely give away”. But no “obligation” doesn’t have to mean “legal obligation” so nobody will sue you, if you are a free-rider. There are such things as “moral obligations”. If the only limit on your behavior is the letter of law, I am sorry for your friends and relatives. And of course, if you really insist on non-monetized purely FLOSS-driven browsers, they are there as well. Go and use the browser formerly known as Epiphany or something else. I believe they are more or less useful, and if the freedom is so important for you, you will gladly sacrifice some functionality, won’t you? Matěj -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
