Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474980 --- Comment #17 from manuel wolfshant <wolfy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-01-28 19:54:40 EDT --- Unfortunately I cannot attend FESCo's IRC meetings due to overlapping with personal matters, but I must stand on Chitlesh's side here (ref #14 )) and support him. I for one would have loved to use a rpm for OVM at the time that I deployed the software in the company I work for (see #3). And no, except for a few minor tools, the game around real EDA has no open-source players, all big boys use products from one of the three major players in the market. Stalling even the few available open source packages because in this moment there is no free tool to use them is just an administrative block and with no support in any of the guidelines I know of. Note that this is the exact opposite case of games with free engines but encumbered game data (which was downloaded at install time from links outside our repos): this time we have free content but no free engine to use it with. Pushing the content _might_ speed up the engine and harm no one; on the contrary we would once again be the leader of the movement. No content at all will definitely not help anyone. It's like saying "Look, we have free oranges ! Take as many as you want !" but you reply "No, I will not eat your oranges unless someone provides a free knife for peeling them, too !" Or in a geeky speak, "Here, have some free beer !" "No, thank you, I cannot accept it, I have no free bottle opener!" And for what it's worth: 10 days ago I had the opportunity to attend a meeting with a manager working for one of the top 3 EDA tools manufacturers mentioned above. It just happened that his next meeting scheduled during that week was with the other players of the OVM game, in view of releasing OVM 2.1. In other words, there is a real incentive over this project. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review