advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

Mike Ruckman roshi at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 12 16:34:44 UTC 2014


On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:58:34 +0100
H. Guémar <hguemar at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> My *personal* opinion is that we should disable this kind of feature
> by default.

+1

> Actually, unless it tracks users, i don't think that our guidelines
> forbids it, though it may influence our choice for the packages set
> installed by default.
> 
> Has anyone tried to contact Mozilla Corporation about it so we may
> discuss this based on facts ?
> 
> H.

Another thing to determine: who can purchase ad-space from Mozilla? Are
our users going to get ads from Canonical or Windows? Of course, this
question goes away if the functionality is disabled or removed, but
something to keep in mind. 

// Roshi
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