On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Without the users, the developers and other projects won't be interested > in having their stuff on Fedora. Neat projects like boxee, etc won't even > consider us, again because the alternatives have the users. This is > especially true for the younger/in-school groups to which media is > extremely important. I also consider this group to be a growth market > that we won't be in touch with. We are in a tough position when it comes to media because its impossible for us to provide the technology that allows for popular media consumption without a substantial change in our guiding legal and philosophical principles. Its sort of the same discussion I imagine mozilla had internally over the issue of choosing to forego native h.264 support even though that decision is undoubtedly going to cost them users who will jump over to chrome in part to get out of the box h.264 support. Is there a way out of the proprietary codec trap that meets legal muster that we can live with as a project? I haven't seen one. -jef _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
