Re: Recommending proprietary software in Fedora

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On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:01:49 PM MST mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:19 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> wrote:
> > By actively offering the proprietary Chrome to the users instead of
> > explaining the above, you are actually pointing them towards using
> > proprietary software instead of Free Software for no reason.
> 
> I think you're probably right that people mainly want Chrome for the
> multimedia support. But well, surely you are well aware that we'll
> never be able to point to the rpmfusion codecs packages in any official
> location. I know it's very frustrating, but the legal team is just
> trying to protect Red Hat (and Fedora). It would be helpful to please
> keep your argumentation within the realm of the legal constraints we
> have to respect.
> 
> Michael

If we can't point to that, but *can* point to *proprietary software* "in any 
official location", we're obviously doing something wrong. Protecting Fedora 
is not achieved by recommending proprietary software.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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