On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:08 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 12:48 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > >> On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 19:30 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: > >> > >>> I think this is a rephrasing of Jeff's brigth line that he seeks to > >>> draw and wants to know what it will include and what not. > >> Thanks for this post, for me it did a good job of separating the > >> technical from $other considerations. > >> > >> The Fedora brand is a Linux brand. It makes sense to have some > >> Microsoft Windows stuff where it supports that story, such as tools to > >> assist migration ... to Linux. The libvirt pieces seem, to me, to be a > >> good enough fit and belong on this side of the bright line. > >> > >> But we need to make it clear that we are not going to morph Fedora into > >> being some super-meta-FLOSS thing. So, to me, the productivity apps > >> belong on the other side of the bright line. If we want to be involved > >> in helping people switch from Microsoft Windows by supporting > >> productivity FLOSS stacks that runs on that OS, it should be under a > >> brand other than Fedora. Such as "Mozilla". ;-D > >> > > > > Thanks Karsten. I agree with the above. > > > > -sv > > Agreed also. Well said. And in actuality that project (productivity for non-free OS) already exists: http://releases.theopencd.org/latest/ -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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