[Just a few quick notes]
A thought-provoking opinion.
My response:
Fedora users are free to use whatever software they like, including
proprietary software. This necessarily will involve some hassle when
Fedora ships 100% open source. I can see how the break proprietary
video drivers with an update is inconvenient. However, holding back
7.1 is about the only thing that Fedora can do, and that holds the
update schedule back.
Not necessarily. With appropriate packaging, third party drivers can
depend on older version of Xorg and we wont be breaking any systems at
all. Besides packages are currently designed to fall back on the open
source driver if a appropriate binary only driver is not present. If the
user downloads the driver from the nvidia site directly, they might run
into problems but we already advise users not to do that in our release
notes.
As to the desktop Linux world, if it's good and open source we want it
in Fedora somehow. Beagle desktop search is in Fedora due to mono
being developed elsewhere. I also have seen people run Novell's new
main menu on Fedora (which I hope to see in Extras sometime).
That Red Hat ships code from the "competition" or vice versa is not news
at all in the open source world. We are not having a dog chases cat war
here. We all benefit from the cross vendor and community pollination.
I have personally pushed for the Novell Slab menu applet to be included
in Fedora with our own modifications to integrate into Fedora tools etc
in a better way and I am using the package in review in FC5 for sometime
now. There is some nice work being done here.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-July/msg00515.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199681
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200863
Rahul
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