On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 19:03 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:39 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 00:36 +0200, David Nielsen wrote: > > > Yum mind you also installs proprietary software, should we make that > > > work only on Fedora approved software as well? > > > > The difference here is that we're not enabling yum to point to repos of > > proprietary software out of the box. > > > > We'd be doing that with codec buddy, if we linked to proprietary Fluendo > > bits. I've got no problem with codec buddy saying: > > > > I'm sorry! You just tried to play a .WMV file. There are currently no > > known free software implementations for Microsoft Evil Evil Codec. > > > > Here's where I'm confused about codec buddy. What was described to us at > the board meeting at fudcon back in the beginning of this year was this: > > 1. people encounter an unknown format > 2. a box pops up to tell them they can go to this link to learn more > about this > 3. that link would be fedoraproject.org/codec_info_is_us or something > like that > 4. the content we would control. We could offer a link to the fluendo > codecs if we wanted to - but it would not necessarily have to be the > only thing. and most importantly we could tell the user why the codec > they're fighting with is evil, etc, etc. > > > When did codecbuddy change to ONLY point to fluendo and do nothing else? > > I'm positive there was an education component to codec buddy - but it > doesn't seem like it is there now. You're not misremembering. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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