Le Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:50:06PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah a écrit : > > Frankly, I don't see why both cannot agree. By coming up with an > arrangement for sharing Debian searches and NOT changing $BROWSER > defaults, you are just allowing those hits to be recorder as $BROWSER > (upstream) hits as opposed to Debian hits, and Debian is not > compensated. This doesn't adversely affect upstream unless the > maintainers aggressively alter the default User-Agent or some other > indicator which would deny upstream their rightful due. Would you agree?
Hi Kumar If that due were rightful, we would accept in Debian some works where the license requires the user to share with the upstream developers the profits he makes with their software. But this is clearly non-free. So the problem is not about who has the right to get the money. I think that there are two problems. a) Deviations from upstream defaults for no technical reason. b) Ad-hoc short terms solutions to a more general problem, motivated by the fear of losing the opportunity of reveiving money. Service providers need feedback to better operate. This is observed in many human-designed and nature-evolved complex systems. Ourselves, we have Popocon for that purpose. But in the case of web services or web browsers, this whole uncoordinated competition at each level of the food chain for inserting a name or changing the defaults is not going to be practical. DDG's time and money, together with the other players in the browser/searcher field, will be better spent in working and agreeing on a standard, with clear description on the purposes, mechanisms and functions, and how it serves the protection of privacy and the reduction of monopolies, which can be integrated in the Linux distributions and configured by the users. That makes less money for Debian, but a better-working ecosystem, of which we will also benefit. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120330011806.gd6...@falafel.plessy.net