On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:39:05 +0530 Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/05/2011 04:13 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:27:46 +0200 > > Alexander Volovics wrote: > > > >> Why does Fedora lag behind Ubuntu in this regard while usually > >> providing newer drivers and firmware than Ubuntu? > > With fedora, a good guess is always the fanatical dedication to > > open source licensing (but that is just a guess). Some lawyer may > > have noticed that the Dell document describing the keyboard doesn't > > have one of the acceptable creative commons licenses :-). > > Can you avoid doing this so often? It misleads other users and is not > helpful in any way. Thanks I disagree. I find it useful to stress this licensing policy. From my own experience I couldn't explain why OOo calc was stripped of some handy features available on the Sun version. Both were open source software from my perspective. A user on #fedora explained me this particularity (i.e. stripped featured to respect the free software fedora policy). It might not be obvious for casual users at first, but once it is, a user can decide to comply or change distribution (ev. to compile a needed software). I like this stand about Fedora, and I don't see how's Alexander comment is negative? -- nomnex. Registered Linux user #505281. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
