Fedora's way forward

[Michael J Knox]

Michael J Knox wrote:
> sean wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:20:25 +0200
>> Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> 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