#57: Seeking Council feedback/input on draft third party software policy
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner:
Status: new | Priority: normal
Component: General | Resolution:
Keywords: workstation |
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Comment (by uraeus):
I understand, but a tool meant to help you search for stuff need to help
you do that to remain useful. If you everytime you searched for China in
Google only got results relating to Taiwan or got results about Canada
when searching for USA, with a little notice at the bottom saying 'click
here to view less ethical search results' you would probably stop using
Google at some point.
Which is why I been advocating the labelling as a better approach than
trying to distort search results. As it lets us communicate our views
without giving people random search results. So to follow up on my example
above instead of returning Canada when people search for the USA, we
instead return USA but put up labels like 'No universal healthcare' and
'Practices death penalty'. Which is still making a clear political
statement, yet returning information about the thing people actually
searched for.
Replying to [comment:40 mattdm]:
Replying to [comment:39 uraeus]:
> And to some degree if people search for Chrome then prioritizing
Chromium
could maybe be justified although I am already feeling we are
close to being annoying with such a move. And it also feels very Chrome
specific, as the number of 'non-free' applications with a open source twin
is a very small club. And of course returning for instance Web or Firefox
on a 'Chrome' search is without a doubt crossing the line from trying to
gently push people in the right direction to just being obnoxious.
I think reasonable people can disagree on where exactly that line is. A
gentle
push that no one notices is... too gentle. Personally, I'm willing
for us to err on the "obnoxious" side if that best advances the mission of
promoting free/open source software. Of course, ideally, we have a
solution that's both non-obnoxious *and* pro-free-software. In the real
world, there's a balance somewhere; in finding that balance, communicating
the preference for free software should be a primary objective, not
something done only if it can be done without annoying anyone.
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