On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 01:00:37PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > 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. Yes. We talked about this at length on the Fedora Council -- and on the Board before that. There's basically a big philosophical question about the right response and what benefits free software (and Fedora) best overall. If someone needs Chrome for their job (and it is sadly the case that Chromium does not always suffice), do we do better by saying "okay, here's how you can get that easily" or by saying "sorry, go somewhere else"? This isn't a settled question in Fedora, and it's one that people feel very passionate about in both sides. In the end, we decided that allowing the experiment was worthwhile _as a means to the eventual end_. This is why there's a section about free and open source software in the third party policy, and why it includes the line "Wherever available, free and open source alternatives are listed and users are encouraged to prefer these to their restricted counterparts." You can see some of the history of all of this here: https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/57 -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
