On 04/21/2014 01:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>
> On 04/21/2014 01:07 PM, Haïkel Guémar wrote:
>
> We should think on how we could improve collaboration with
> third-party repos, fedmsg/copr might be part of the technical
> solution. How about a Fedora Partnership Program ? We could
open up
> at a certain extent our infrastructure and collaborate with
software
> editors to make sure that their products have some support
in
> Fedora.
>
>
> I love this idea and I think we should probably start another
thread
> on it when this one starts to die down, assuming that the
general
> sense is that the community wants to improve our
> third-party/non-FOSS relationships.
The choices we make are determined by the possibilities we are
presented with. While we all agree that it's neither possible nor
desirable to prevent installation of whatever tools the end user
wants, the Freedom absolutists would like to put up a barrier
against non-Free software, or at least want Fedora to abstain from
helping. I personally prefer that choice to be given to the users,
who should be able to indicate what they want on their systems.
Now, these abstract choices take shape during software installation,
so it seems to me that they should be entered as user preferences in
the software installer to shape the results of software search. In
other words, ask the user what they want to see, and then let them
choose from the results.
We've discussed several such values-based choices:
- the license conditions (Free vs. encumbered vs. non-Free and
commercial)
- tolerance for gritty old commandline tools vs. polished apps only
- choice between full functionality vs. small size and/or speed
I think they all can be seen as user preferences in the software
installer discovery process, making the installer central to how the
resulting system is put together. This is consistent with how Droid
and iOS make software 'stores' and installation a central point of
interaction for configuring their systems.