F14: what to do about pino / twitter

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 20:51 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:36 PM,  <herrmann at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> Exactly. We've been down this road. Anything which can view arbitrary
> content can be used to interact with proprietary services. Do we not
> ship the Exchange support for Evolution? Do we not include f-spot (I
> realize it's not in the default spin) because it's able to export to
> Flickr (Shotwell can too, BTW)? Where does it stop?

Those aren't the same thing. When it comes to a twitter client we're not
talking about 'arbitrary content', we're talking about an app whose sole
purpose is to provide *specific* content to a *specific* service. If
pino is neutral between twitter and identi.ca by default, as someone
suggested, then I think it's clearly fine.
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