On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/10/2010 3:18:06 PM +0450: > > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:33 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote: > > > Dne 10.5.2010 11:26, drago01 napsal(a): > > > To have stuff just work. > > > Go to http://senate.gov/ and ask your congressman to fix it. Otherwise > (for example if you don't have your congressman because you are not a > U.S. citizen), you can also try to move Red Hat's headquarters outside > of U.S. (although I am not sure, it would be enough, you would probably > ask its biggest clients to move). > > > That's the wrong argument. We all know why we _can't_ make it just work, > but that doesn't excuse us. Sorry to take a well-worn analogy, but if > two guys are trying to sell you cars, and one doesn't have an engine, > would the fact that the guy selling the car with no engine has a *really > good and inarguable reason* why it doesn't have an engine make you buy > that car? Hell no. You'd buy the car with the engine. > > Just because we have a *really good reason* we can't ship this stuff > doesn't mean we are excused from the fact that it's a distinct negative > for the use of our operating system as a general-purpose desktop > operating system. > > > Just my 0.2 cents in this regard: well, we have a car without engine, and a > suitable engine is built somewhere which we can't use. But, I wonder why > there is nobody to pick our car and the engine and sell the car with engine > to people who don't want to do that themselves? > RPMFusion is a very well-known engine builder! While there were/are some > efforts to ship our car with its engine, there is no well-known Fedora remix > which contains the extra stuff (it is probably because most of the current > users have already adopted with using rpmfusion if they want it). If we can > come up with enough people to provide and maintain a Fedora remix for > awhile, it can become well-known and something which is always there, so we > can point beginners to that one instead of other distros if they want such a > distro. > We (I and a very few others) are going to create a remix, but our current > target users are a bit more restricted (mostly because of lack of manpower) > (Also we are currently targeting a DVD installation media rather than live > media). But if there are some other interested people out there, we can go > for the mentioned remix (and we will probably base our custom remix on > that). Trademarks ... you can't call it Fedora anymore and would effectively be a different distro. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
