The Multimedia Question

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 17:49:01 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 23:00 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> > 
> > And let's not forget that we already "shill" for other folks... The
> > bittorrent-gui app features a "Donate" button.  Note that I am not
> > saying that is a bad thing.
> 
> Customized Fedora specific shilling for non-free software is pretty 
> different from shilling for the continued development of Free software 
> components that we inherit from upstream projects. It would be a 
> acceptable compromise if that was the only legal solution for a very 
> commonly desired functionality but simultaneously using morality as a 
> argument against linking to a Free software repository simply doesn't fly.

I wasn't arguing this point, I was making it.

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