#57: Seeking Council feedback/input on draft third party software policy -------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: workstation | -------------------------+---------------------
Comment (by 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.