GNOME can't exist in a cultural vacuum. We should do everything we can to work against DRM, to support sources of Free culture, and to educate users about Free culture, DRM, and non-patent-encumbered media formats.[1] But we also have to make compromises sometimes, so that users of our desktop can still access and interact with the broader culture they live in.
I am not suggesting that GNOME should exist in a cultural vacuum, merely that it should refrain from promoting Amazon. Amazon might wish to be the only gateway to culture, but it isn't. Some compromises are necessary; and many others are useful and harmless. Others undermine the moral foundation of what we are doing. (See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html.) This is one of the latter. To promote a company which the FSF is asking people to protest is a particularly bad kind of compromise. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list