Maybe it's time to say goodbye to start.fedoraproject.org?

[drago01]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you did use the default about:home this would also help support
>> your upstream partner Mozilla who gains some revenue from search. As
>> far as I know Fedora does not generate any revenue for upstream while
>> distros like Ubuntu does.
>>
>> Obviously that revenue is really important and helps Mozilla cover its
>> operating costs.
>>
>
> Sure, and I'm sure all of us in Fedora value Mozilla's contribution to
> our ecosystem and the open web, but having about:home by default might
> be problematic as it conflicts with our values of FOSS - it basically
> promotes and endorses Google, a thing that is morally questionable and
> that I'm not even sure if we are legally allowed to do.

We already have a Google search option in firefox. And have access to
Google services in different places / applications. So no there is no
legal issue here.