sean wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:20:25 +0200
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote:
Please speak for yourself and not on behalve of the entire Fedora
Community. Which Sean are you anyway? I can't find much on you and
Fedora, I otoh maintain many FE packages and use my full name.
I for one wouldn't mind pointers and even install help to (100% legally
ok) proprietary software if this will significantly boost the end user
experience.
With this said I do believe that we should be carefull with this, if
there is a free tool which does 95% of the job, then we should not
include links to proprietary alternatives. There is however no free tool
which will allow people to access all those mp3 files from for example
www.magnatune.com.
Even if you wouldn't mind it, it's against the stated goals of the
project. Everyone has a perference one way or the other, some wouldn't
mind, some would. That's why the objectives of the project were
very carefully laid out. Please see Rahul's recent post if you think my
interpretation of the basic premise of the Fedora project is wrong.
Besides, adding third party repositories is already easy and getting
easier all the time.
Since it is pretty clear that Fedora Core will not accommodate 3rd party
closed source applications, why don't those that would have like to have
this get together and make a solution?
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_fc5
The above link is a prime example of how this subject could be
approached (its still very rough, but a good start). Add in some support
from the pre existing 3rd party repo guys and you could have a winning
solution.
There is obviously no single silver bullet for this issue, but instead
of theorizing about what Fedora should/shouldn't/can/won't/etc do, why
don't those that have a common interest stand up to the plate and work
on the issue outside of Fedora Core?
Perhaps Fedora can meet the effort by providing a link or something like
that to the project.
Just a thought.
Michael
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