On 19.11.2007 18:15, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:33 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> Besides that: it smells a bit like "this solution is preferred, the >> other one not". Is that what we want? >> That actually a interesting point in general. E.g. if I start a new >> fluendo-competition company tomorrow can I get my own codeina-like app >> into Fedora? Or modify codeina so it points to my webshop as well? > How about what we really want, which is codeina pointing at zero web > shops? >> IOW: Maybe we should create a webpage in the fedoraproject wiki. Then >> instead of having codeina directly offering the solution for playing >> popular multimedia formats let it direct users to the wiki page. Let >> that one list the different solutions side by side with links to >> homepage from foo and bar; those then can have "click here to use our >> offerings" and "for playing baz afterwards run foobar install foobaz" > This is what we tried to have for Fedora 8. I trust that it is > being/has already been fixed in an update? I just tried (not sure if I did it properly -- I just started codeina manually and tried) -- you get the "Fedora has the mission of always being freely re-distributable; this means[...]" popup; once you go further you can still select the commercial codecs -- then you get send to a webshop. Cu knurd _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
