Re: Fedora's way forward

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Michael J Knox wrote:
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


After looking at the link I gave closer, I noticed this:

http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_frog

This is a script that installs and sets up a lot of the things people are looking for.

How about we work on/from/with that? Its certainly a start.

Michael

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