Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (103 mails)

[Karsten König <remur@xxxxxxx>]

Heya, 

I won't comment as not to indicate any position not really opensuse correlated 
=)
I think the proper group deciding over this is the opensuse-board (they have 
their own list but here it gets wider attention) as there might be similar 
pushes in the future.

Still it might help providing information about this Ubuntu One Music Store, I 
found https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/LucidUbuntuOneMusicStore and 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lucid-ubuntu-one-musicstore but 
they stay very vague what store actually is behind it and how their revenues 
are used, where the music is comming from etc., it's more about the technical 
implementation.


Karsten



Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 03:32:28 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
> On 02/19/2010 09:12 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > Why is this a problem? It isn't, necessarily -- but I do worry about the
> > implications of for-profit distributions or projects or companies
> > getting in a habit of pushing code upstream -- or on other distributions
> > -- with the sole purpose of earning money (as opposed to earning money
> > by improving FOSS and creating a more salable product). It seems like a
>
> I should mention that I know this
> for-profit-entity-pushing-code-upstream happens all the time -- for
> instance pushing drivers into the Linux kernel. And there are other
> examples too -- RedHat pushing *Kit for instance. But the goal with
> these examples is to attempt to push newer and better technologies
> (others might disagree as to whether technology X is better or not, but
> that's not really the point) into the FOSS world...with the aim also of
> also profiting, either through sales of now-supported devices or from
> having a distribution that better supports modern features and provides
> smoother experiences for the users.
>
> I feel like something is fundamentally different here, because the music
> store provides no benefit for the wider FOSS community, nor even for a
> particular non-profit project. One can already download Amazon MP3 music
> on Linux; this just makes it nominally easier, and mostly ensures that
> the for-profit Canonical gets a cut of the profits. It's hard to see
> this as enhancing the FOSS world, or what it brings to the table for
> other projects and distributions. That's why I'm sending this mail to
> you, wondering what your take on this is. I'm interested in the insights
> here.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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