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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 10 April 2014 09:34, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:17:16AM -0400, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
> > That's great that these companies contribute to FOSS projects.  I'm less
> > likely to complain about services that are developed as FOSS that they
> are
> > commericalizing. Making it easier for our users to start using their
> > closed projects, however, is not okay. It does not forward our cause for
> > FOSS. Otherwise we could lump Microsoft into that group since they have
> > made contributions to FOSS projects (including the kernel) in the past.
>
> So, from the three issues that I identified in the board ticket
> (presentation of proprietary web services as applications, curation of the
> list of services, applications interacting with proprietary services in
> general), it seems like you are really more interested in the _second_
> part:
> the selection and curation of the list. Not _necessarily_ whether the
> website code (either frontend or backend) is free / open source, although
> you consider that an important factor.
>

>From the peanut gallery, my main concern is selection and curation. Let us
say that we throw the "do these programs represent Fedora values" out the
window as being old fashioned or just too hard to judge. Who gets to decide
which is on this list and what criteria is being used. Do we add stuff when
people ask, do we remove stuff when people ask? How do we deal with the
millions of SaaS out there that will want to be part of this (only if it is
because if their rival down the street is listed they want in too). When we
find out that many of our users are wanting Microsoft or Apple products
listed... do we? and why not?

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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