Proprietary search engines
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Aug 31 21:09:00 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:59 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says:
> >
> > "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox
> > Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change,
> > and how it would benefit the end-user. "
> >
> > I think we could manage such a rationale.
>
> We can definitely make a rationale for having a bunch of Fedora
> resources on the start page, but our rationale for omitting a Google
> search box, "it's redundant and promotes a proprietary service", is not
> a line of reasoning I would expect Mozilla to accept. Then again, they
> may calculate that they are better off compromising on this issue in
> order to keep Fedora using their trademarks.
'It's redundant' seems fairly reasonable to me. IIRC, the presence of a
search box on the start page is a hangover from when there *wasn't* one
in the browser chrome by default.
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