F14: what to do about pino / twitter

[herrmann at redhat.com]

On Oct 1, 2010, at 14:53, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:

> This is definitely scope creeping the discussion here, but I'm coming
> round to the viewpoint that Fedora shoudn't ship any application in
> the default install whose primary purpose is to connect to proprietary
> web services, or at least not ones configured by default to do so.
> (All apps are of course free to be in the repositories).
> 
> This would dovetail nicely with making it not suck to install applications.

How would you define a "proprietary web service"?

Is google such a service ? The only open protocol used by connecting any app to any of their servers is http, xmpp etc. Everything behind is closed. So we remove firefox ?

Lars