On 7/19/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which other proprietary apps should we link to? Acrobat opens PDFs that evince doesn't. What about flash?
I think there's a significant difference between a situation like evince and acrobat, and the situation that has prompted codec buddy. Evince is a legitimate open but buggy application that can be registered against at least one mime type and attempt to access the data. The question is how do we gracefully, empathicly interact with users who run into a mime type that we as a community don't have a legitmate/legal application to present to the user that will attempt to read the data. I don't believe that just telling them, "Sorry you can't access that data with open tools," is the best answer across the board. Having a user walk away from the long term benefits of using Fedora and an open system to use a completely closed system to access what they consider to be important legacy data cannot be in the best interests of our long term goals. Whether or not I think avi data is specifically important enough to worry about is immaterial. Legacy data gets packaged in all sorts of proprietary formats, and we should be providing a migration path for as much of that data as possible that users can choose to take. -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
