On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:58:20PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MinGW What is Fedora's motivation is promoting using Open Source on a closed source operating system? This is beyond the FPC to decide as this is a technical committee, but still a valid question and maybe one that the board should be investigating. F/LOSS often had and has to compromise on its base principles to get a lift-off, and so does Fedora (the current exception for firmwares is such a compromise). Before there was a Linux kernel, the GNU project was "supporting" closed source Unices and by design still does so. But we're beyond the age of this kind of symbiosis, Linux (or GNU/Linux ...) and Fedora in particular doesn't need this anymore. In fact when a patch in a Fedora package is made it often doesn't matter if it works on other Unices, sometimes not even for the Free ones. In this case I don't see the benefits for Fedora. I just see more Open Source being hijacked for a non Open Source operating system. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
