2) Drivers Vs Linux (Score:5, Interesting) by eldavojohn A lot of people I talk to say they don't like Linux due to lack of driver support. Is there anyway you see this problem being eliminated? How do you court vendors to support their hardware on your flavor of Linux? A) One of the bold goals that we set out when we started the Fedora project was to create a 100% free and open source distribution. We wanted to show the world what free software could do, and we wanted developers and users to know what the limits of free software were SO THAT WE COULD ADDRESS THEM. Is it a bummer that software patents limit software innovation and freedom? Hell yes. Should we paper over this fact in the name of end-user convenience. No--that's not the goal of Fedora. The good news is that FC5 (and FC6t2) have more driver support than ever before--the result of a team effort across the community--but there /are/ limitations, and we make those limitations transparent so that users can vote with their wallets. If we set a different goal--to be the best platform for conventional video games, or the best platform for proprietary media formats, our decision of what packages and drivers we include would be different. But we set a goal of free software because we are more interested in the democratization than assimilation. We believe we have seen the positive effects of taking this position..."what doesn't kill us makes us stronger". _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly