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

[Michael Scherer]

Le jeudi 10 avril 2014 à 11:29 -0400, Matthew Miller a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:07:45AM -0400, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
> > So...  hmmm... Very good questions here.  My gut tells me that
> > Wordpress.com is okay (built on the open source Wordpress), Etherpad is
> > good, I believe there is a commercial hosting of OwnCloud somewhere.
> > > Would lwn.net be considered a non-free web service?
> > I thin kthat this, and similar, sites would be okay since they forward our
> > cause to FOSS. There is no UI (no service provided which appears to be the
> > purpose of the webapps in GNOME) so it more of a consumable and not SaaS.
> 
> What about sites that are not open source but promote open content? Flickr
> comes to mind as a big Creative Commons backer. And Bandcamp. Or, Stack
> Exchange — all content is CC-BY-SA. And, of course, there's GitHub.
> 
> From the point of view of advancing a wider agenda, I'd be interested in
> taking <http://tosdr.org/> into account. But it's probably not time to talk
> about that yet. :)

What about the privacy angle ?

Ubuntu did got a significant media backlash due to amazon and "spyware"
stuff.

And I think we try to avoid placing software who call back home by
default, or similar features ( while I may be wrong, i think we had a
patch on bittorrent for that, but I didn't found anything written, so
that's likely just "decided by the maintainer" ).

We also have it written in the privacy policy :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy?rd=Legal/PrivacyPolicy#Our_Commitment_to_Privacy

( but I guess the privacy policy is just about the project infra, more
than the whole project ).

As I think most of the web sites we could offer do have a business model
that would kinda contradict this commitment, and as no one spoke of
this, i think it may be important to take that in account.

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Michael Scherer