From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Gerwitz Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Sun, 06 May 2018 20:36:14 -0400 Message-ID: <87d0y8jo8x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> <87tvrlhi58.fsf@hyperbola.info> <878t8xo9t9.fsf@gnu.org> <87vac0khg0.fsf@gnu.org> <948c3377-b905-7d6d-d7f5-0e8e61bcdb06@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFU8n-0000cq-I6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 20:36:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFU8m-0000TT-JD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 20:36:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <948c3377-b905-7d6d-d7f5-0e8e61bcdb06@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sun, 6 May 2018 18:33:56 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 18:33:56 +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 06.05.2018 um 16:05 schrieb Mike Gerwitz: >> In the case of their addon >> system, they encourage installation of non-free addons, which is against >> the Free Software Distribution Guidelines (FSDG), and is the same reason >> that Debian isn't a recommended free software distribution. >> > My aim is to empower people, not to infantilize them. > > If we disable adding add-on, we appoint ourselves as guardian for > immature users. And this IMHO is contrary to "free" (as in "free speech"). There might be a miscommunication: I'm not suggesting that we disable addons (I use many of them), merely that we do not have the default Firefox addon page, which encourages non-free software. IceCat replaces it with its own page that uses the free software directory, for example. Users are free to use that directory; go to addons.mozilla.org themselves; or install addons however else they choose. =2D-=20 Mike Gerwitz Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 https://mikegerwitz.com --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJa759+AAoJEIyRe39dxRuiCqIP+QGftnijzn9hQLkJmdvD+aAv q+iE60qrUInuJouza9UMjpP4jM5sNEQPmjR29ca/FU498ktP5jzmoD+U6hhFmEW9 570wjeHQ1rIv4ozvqz4gtrseGXUq0iF11/Z10EpX2io5EhP3xvIvmMUDTaWNGsmd 3MsPfXp77cnV9794QJVgY1D/eHINqByXzbn5I2HxbHyfhJtMiZHXXRuGWPlAtJIj gLZ+hlAUMLIPf+kF6OHk7Q2G/yGJSyHA8z1q4mR1ERu6Si2Vhu4Z1PNSqxp0nAn8 minAmrEQcm68E4wepcaK3w8Zy9Y6cZ4MPi2d7v/1FnHQry2uThiPD8N+rMF9x3dj 4ROZpUYLYOzkDqTnVpaq46ugzYocCvCFu+mV2iwByPsSKL3kmtUcx1FzrxfWyWuV 1KjbXYLK6VNq3Iy7Dhn6RTsJ3jrmQqYw6Im+i8utT+yPRkHxG12JJJwDeZxZtfVE 5jeRgGBksrD+VEXXREd26VdAQcS5N9WggxIBXmP/MTUhGdlW8x+uSkD8N5M9BxVI Tkk0GH+1VQtRagPD0TNCuorcB0IEfp9JaDCbyGD9CSamklUv1UsncwfuvWdjKAGA sWusON8Bw4rmkzM8v7LGp1swMYLlrFnid08TjzP03z1wNyWFgZ3CaNVrPH22r2kp k2ooS8XUDIm6Qv2niDFs =pC0g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--