other ways of working with third party vendors [was Re: Proposal: Revision of policy surrounding 3rd party and non-free software]

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:09:33AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> Stopping the openly hostile attitude towards software that is not in
> Fedora (for whatever reason) might be a good first step.
> 
> I've seen lots of contributions in this (and related) discussions that
> convey the opinion that software that is not in Fedora is morally
> questionable, of inferior quality, using 'bad' languages, etc, etc.

I'm a huge fan of making it easier for third parties to deploy software 
on Fedora, I just don't want to conflate that with Fedora defaulting to 
offering non-free software to users. We can work on the former without 
having to change our position on the latter.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org