On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 10:59 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> > We don't usually document proprietary software. Also refer >> > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F9Common#Proprietary_.28third-party.29_video_drivers >> > >> > Rahul >> >> I'm aware of Fedora Project and proprietary software but I'm just >> trying to say that we need to at least say that somewhere and although >> common bugs page is really nice I would expect it also in release >> notes. > > I just sent a flippant reply to this, but it is worth taking a moment to > respond with more detail. > > There are *many* good reasons not to document the use of closed source > software. Perhaps it is worth writing this up into a short essay on a > wiki page so we can refer to it always. > > At the same time, it can be very painful to not be able to help someone > with their problem, especially when "all you have to do is ..." It is > very human to want to take away their hurt. In Fedora, we know that if > we try to take away short term hurt, we have to be careful that we are > not perpetuating the long term hurt. > > Is this something that is unclear to other people? The reasons why we > only document software that is provided in Fedora? > > Earlier today I removed instructions that Valent put on the > ForbiddenItems page. The instructions pointed to a bug in Firefox that > prevented Firefox's plugin finder from working with installing Adobe's > Flash player. In addition, a link was included to a page describing how > to install Adobe's Flash player. This was all in replacement of a > previous statement that one could use Firefox to install the Flash > plugin. Valent was correcting that original "how-to install" statement > with the bug report et al. In consideration, I think the original > statement was incorrect being there. I guess that you also need/want to correct the page : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Flash Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
