Re: Non FOSS and Fedora

[Adam Kosmin <akosmin nyc rr com>]

Sam,

I'll spell it out for you. By allowing this documentation to exist on
fedoranews.org, readers are basically being told "It's ok to use and
install non-FOSS software on your computer. In fact, we'll even show you
how!".

Now I'm not going to question your views on or commitment toward FOSS
(not sure I want to know based off your reaction) but will only ask  you
to acknowledge that what I have described above is not in line with the
objectives of The Fedora Project.

http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html

Adam Kosmin


Sam Barnett-Cormack (s barnett-cormack lancaster ac uk) wrote:
" On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Adam Kosmin wrote:
" 
" >
" > Greetings,
" >
" > I couldn't help but notice Thomas Chung's tutorials up on fedoranews.org
" > which describe how to install Acrobat Reader, Helix, and Macromedia
" > Flash.
" >
" > In light of The Fedora Project's #2 objective being "Build the operating
" > system exclusively from open source software.", I must pose this
" > question to the list:
" >
" > Is it appropriate to encourage people to install non-FOSS software on
" > Fedora?
" 
" If someone is running a seperate project, and giving people the info to
" do something they want or need to do, I can't see a problem.
" 
" -- 
" 
" Sam Barnett-Cormack
" Software Developer                           |  Student of Physics & Maths
" UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk)  |  Lancaster University
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