[Fedora Board issue tracker] #182: GNOME 3.12 pushes Google and other commercial, non-FOSS "apps" at users

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Eric H. Christensen
<sparks at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Maybe I am coming off as a bit pedantic here, but I can't help but feel we are discussing 'non-free web services' based on individual gut
>> feelings about what that term is supposed to mean.
>
> Nope, you are correct in that if we have a gut feeling about something (one way or the other) then we need to be able to clearly define it.
>
>> I mean is there anyone here on this list who before this discussion actually had as a personal policy that you don't visit or use any website or
>> service you don't have the source code to?
>
> Maybe not that I don't have the source code for but definitely for their standings in the FOSS community.  I don't usually use Google services, avoid Microsoft anything, and basically host the stuff I really want to interact with myself.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter all contribute significantly to FOSS
projects.  Their services may not be libre, but their standings in the
FOSS community are actually pretty good in my opinion.  So I'm not
sure that's a good litmus test here.

josh