Re: Non FOSS and Fedora

[Sam Barnett-Cormack <s barnett-cormack lancaster ac uk>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Adam Kosmin wrote:

> 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

But, IIUC, fedoranews isn't run by the Fedora Project?

> 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.
> "
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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer                           |  Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk)  |  Lancaster University