[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 11:34 AM, 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.

Be careful.  You actually just lumped your items 1 and 2 together
there.  Item 1 is essentially selection.  Item 2 is basically
curation, or the process in which selected items are added to the list
and maintained.

josh