On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:09 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Easy Fedora is a requirement if Fedora is to be targeting a Desktop > user. We should point him to a place such as www.easylinux.info where > there is a tar file and script (frog.sh) that installs all the > multimedia stuff that is taboo for open source. As has been stated several times so far, this is absolutely NOT what we need. Sacrificing issues of long-term freedom and security for some short-term functionality is something that Fedora cannot do, as it is both against its stated ideals as a distribution and also legally questionable (aiding infringement of copyright or patent law, etc.) > If these taboo install sources were available easily, say 30 minutes > to install, then Fedora would be #1 in distributions for a very long > time. Instead, it is, as the song goes, slip,sliding away. We want Fedora to be easy to install and use, definitely; but we can only go so far while keeping the system Free. Fedora's goal is to be entirely Free and to do things the Right Way (in terms of security, application integration, standards-compliance, etc.); and NOT necessarily to be popular. > [..] > If there suddenly became a small charge for support (say $25.00) to > help setup, I could see several multimillion dollar revenu [sic] > companies coming into existance. > Red Hat already is its Enterprise Linux offerings which among other things *do* contain things like Flash, Sun Java and Acrobat Reader on a secondary disc (though I don't know if they still do this). Or there are free (read: "no cost", not necessarily liberally licensed) alternative distributions which do contain this stuff as default options such as Ubuntu, Gentoo, or others that one can choose from. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/
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