Search Engine Proposal

[Mike McGrath]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Camilo Mesias wrote:

> > We wish we weren't and we want to learn from our mistakes rather than
> > repeat them. In the case of the start page I believe it was a
> > concession combined with the hope that it would be replaced with a
> > free solution in the future. It at the very least should not used as a
> > shining example of the way Fedora does things.
>
> Is Google really that bad or are some people being a bit too
> principled? Couldn't we think of the market leader of free-as-in-beer
> search engines as a commodity and just use it while it's free? I don't
> fret about running my computer on open source electricity.
>
> I think anyone who shudders at the thought of supporting Google by
> using their search should be condemned to use something that behaves
> like the RH's bugzilla search for the rest of their career... :)
>

We have a free software policy, while we continue to revise it, google's
search engine is clearly against that policy:

http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/csi/free-software-policy/en-US/html-single/

	-Mike