On 10/14/19 6:19 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
John, the third-party software policy was approved after a long and
contentious debate:
https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpagure.io%2FFedora-Council%2Ftickets%2Fissue%2F121&data=02%7C01%7Cprzemek.klosowski%40nist.gov%7Cb6880a9e2cb041668b5508d7509033d6%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C1%7C637066452583661821&sdata=%2BJLzyHYQO1Oh5yBaRTF9AxAhX9ZD2tQOldCoBBtieRE%3D&reserved=0
That policy is still completely at odds with the Fedora objectives.
Recommending proprietary software is entirely incompatible with the Freedom
goal and actively works against it. So this policy needs to be revisited to
exclude proprietary software or repealed entirely.
It's a difficult choice. My understanding is that Fedora does not
'recommend' proprietary software, but rather allows it to be found, in
response to people searching for it by either specific terms (package
name) or specific functionality.
Are you arguing that the only choice compatible with Fedora principles
is to ignore the existence of proprietary software? I think this would
be contrary to the interests of the users. Speaking for myself, when
people ask me about image editing software, I say that I recommend the
FOSS product GIMP, but that there is also an excellent proprietary
Photoshop. I am not comfortable just mentioning one to the exclusion of
the other.
I think the overall goal for FOSS software is to be technically
excellent and compete successfully with proprietary software. Ignoring
non-FOSS software is actually counterproductive to that goal.
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