Free services and proprietary services? What does that even mean? I apologise for disrupting your discussion.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > yesterday we were talking in the irc channel about mozilla-searchplugins > and if they should be different in [libre] and [nonprism]. > > since [nonprism] makes sure no program depends on proprietary services, > icarious posed[0] that mozilla-searchplugins as it is should be moved to > [nonprism], while [libre] should contain only default search engines, > like any other browser in non-[nonprism] repos. > > i think this would be a regression, since duckduckgo[1] as default > search engine and disabling google services (like "safe"browsing) was > one of the first features we implemented back when parabola consisted of > a blacklist and a repo with linux-libre and icecat. > > so to make things clear, i think a distinction should be made between > recommending or depending on proprietary/anti-privacy services that run > entirely as remote services, like google search as default search engine > or google unsafebrowsing, which should be removed in non-[nonprism] > repos, and proprietary services that are accessed using free software, > like proprietary protocols included in pidgin, having icedove or mua's > have shortcuts to configure gmail, etc., which should be implemented > only in [nonprism]. > > of course this should be analyzed case per case (see the firefox hello > issue on labs), but i think such distinction would prevent scalation a > la "remove all contact with the unfree internet!", which could be a nice > experiment, but not the scope of non-[nonprism], no? > > there's a fine line between freedom #0 and development decisions after > all :) > > what do you think? > > > [0]: if i misunderstood you, please tell me so > [1]: i know ddg is yet another proprietary service... > > -- > http://partidopirata.com.ar > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev > >
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