On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 20:51 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:36 PM, <herrmann(a)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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