Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-06 Thread James
On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 16:40 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > While I do think we should recommend fdroid.org as preferable and > only > > link to it (such as in links from the GNOME application and its > > documentation), and avoid linking to a version in the Play store > (e.g. > >

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-06 Thread Michael Catanzaro
Hi, I suggest you consider whether boycotting proprietary app stores is the really best way to advance free software, considering that 99% of users on such platforms will not install our free software unless it is available via the app stores. Michael

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-06 Thread Richard Stallman
> > I suspect that uploading to the app store also requires nonfree software, > > but I don't know for certain. > To the best of my knowledge it does not, though some effort is required > to avoid it. (See some of the recent discussion about the Android SDK > and its EULA, for