On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 09:53 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > Honestly, I think all of these comments come from one pivotal issue: > > Fedora won't break US law. > > Debian will. Ubuntu will. SuSE will. Gentoo will. > > Thus, there is no need for "extra" repositories to arise for these Linux > distributions. And the average user wants to have software that breaks > the law (mp3, dvd, etc). So they have to go outside the safety zone that > is the distribution for Fedora, and here there be dragons. > > This problem sucks. It has always sucked. We're playing by the rules, > where no one else is, and we're getting punished for it, while they > prosper. > > The rules (US law) are broken. I just have no idea how to fix it in my > lifetime, much less in the period of relevance for Fedora. Is there a reason why we don't say this widely? It's a compelling and simple to understand meme (free/non-free/illegal/illegal aside.) --Chris _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
