Advertising "open core" software

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/15/2010 06:02 PM, Nelson Marques wrote:
> Rahul,
>
> Thanks for the explanation, that really provided me more accurate
> information. I've readed before somewhere that Fedora went Gnote because
> Tomboy had connections to Mono. It was a comparative article with
> highlighted Fedora 12 vs OpenSuSE 11.2 I think. The Live CD wasn't
> mentioned. 
>
> The idea I got from the article was that Gnote was highlighted because
> it was more inside the FOSS scope that Tomboy which relied on Mono. 

Well the anti-Mono brigade hijacked the news about this change and
projected their own motivations to it and I have explained it to some
press reports about that and copied this list in fact.   My recent blog
post on this topic

http://mether.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/gnote-and-fedora/

I had to clarify notions about similar change that is happening with
F-Spot being replaced by Shotwell

http://lwn.net/Articles/383249/#Comments

> I've been flamed countless times for defending a pacific co-existence
> between proprietary and FOSS despite of all the fuss around. In my
> humble opinion, it's actually users choice. But if we face Fedora as a
> FOSS enabler (our main role?), shouldn't we excel in doing that?
>   

We are not restricting user's choice in any way. but promoting
proprietary or even open core software or enabling them in Fedora is a
entirely different matter. 

Rahul