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

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Apr 10 16:09:48 UTC 2014


On 04/10/2014 10:52 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  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?

Indeed (and agreed), especially now that I'm a peanut gallery member too. :)

This is why I've been advocating that getting answers to these questions 
is an important prerequisite before considering allowing the (default) 
display of 3rd-party items in software center.

-- Rex


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