On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 07:20 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 15:14 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/256974/ > > > > Btw - in the interview they mention further integration of the webstore > > into codeina/codecbuddy. If it starts looking like we're pushing closed > > source software then that, imo, is when codeina gets dumped out of the > > distribution. > > Agreed; we should not be shipping a shill. > > > I don't care about needles and I don't want to ween the addicts off. > > People who build their houses on the top of the hill so the addicts in > the valley don't steal from them are just delaying the inevitable. > > We can remove ourselves from the problem entirely, but it doesn't make > the problem go away, and it doesn't stop it from growing larger (again) > to engulf us. If that's the case then we should just give up on this quixotic goal of having a pure-free-software distro and start talking to companies for how they'd like us to provide their closed-source packages and how to tie a webstore frontend into yum. </jonathan swift> -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
