On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:40:45 +0100 Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh.goorah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello there, > > Before reading the mail, be brave people read this blog post first, > especially people from FESCo: > http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1290038929.html > > Do comment on that blog post. Afterwards you read my email. > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > I found it sad that I have to write this email today. Well, it is part > of my contribution to both opensource software and opensource EDA > software communities. > > The subject of this email is "Fedora Project, give me 20 Million Euros > or Free Software" ! Unfortunately, I'm not kidding and even 20 Million > Euros is not enough. > > Well, let's get to the point ! ... snip ... First, let me say that I have been impressed and happy with all the work you have been doing on electronics lab packages. This is a great area to get folks involved in using and perhaps someday contributing to Fedora. Also, I am happy that OVM is released under a free license. This is great that an area that is full of closed source solutions now has an open source content. I hope that this will show how well open source works to those that might not know anything about it. However, allowing this package into Fedora with no way for the vast majority of Fedora users to use it seems to me to be bad for the overall user experence. On the plus side: users who have access to the non free simulator can install and use this package and gain all the benifits from doing so. On the minus side: user who do not have access to a non free simulator would possibly install this package, get confused, be unable to run it, think that Fedora was telling them to go out and buy some commercial software, etc. You mentioned an analogy on IRC: " I have written "Ebook about my car" that I want to package for fedora, I have to give the car via yum" I don't think thats a very close analogy. This case with OVM has no hardware involved, only software. I think a better one would be: Someone comes up with a super new document templating system. It's released under a free license. OpenOffice says they will support it sometime, but doesn't currently. It works with Microsoft Office now however. Should such a package be in Fedora? Wouldn't it cause users to see it and install it and then realize we are telling them to go buy MSOffice? Now, thinking about it: Are there any other uses for OVM aside from running it in a non free simulator? Would it somehow be useful for people to learn from even though they cannot run it? Or is there any other reasons it would be useful for people who don't have access to the non free simulator? > Kind regards, > Chitlesh kevin
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