On Sun, August 21, 2005 3:07 pm, Steve Bergman said: > What I keep hearing in this thread is that RedHat's position as the > "managing entity" of Fedora is holding Fedora back in the area of > multimedia. Not really, just not embracing proprietary multimedia formats. It's a question of priorities. > Don't get me wrong; most Fedora work gets done by people with redhat.com > email addresses. But it is true that RedHat represents a nice *central* > target for a legal suit, which is just what patent holders like. It's > so old-school and comfortable to have some central entity, with money, > to attack. How might the promised Fedora Foundation change this? > > Personally, I'd be happy if the installation offered the ability to add > entries to yum.repos.d (a big hurdle for newbies) which was not limited > to, but did include Livna, accompanied by the expected stern warnings > about respecting your local laws. It would be good to make it easier to install yum repo entries; for instance by just clicking on a web page link. The actual links wouldn't have to be provided or even referenced by Fedora. > Adding repositories is not a big deal for us old hands; It's just a > PITA, nothing more. But the newbie is already overwhelmed by switching > OSes. To them, "Fedora just doesn't support multimedia". All > discussions of "feature parity" aside, when's the last time you saw an > Ogg Theora stream on Yahoo's site? There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem here. We need to create a demand for free formats at the same time as creating a supply. Cheers, Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
