Re: Fedora's way forward

[sean <seanlkml sympatico ca>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:51:22 -0700
Stanton Finley <stanfinley comcast net> wrote:

> Rahul, do you use any proprietary applications on your computers at all,
> including proprietary graphics acceleration driver such as nVidia or
> ATI? I ask this because in this day and age much serious computer work
> is seriously hobbled without at least some of them, depending on what
> you do with your computer of course. Reading and replying to emails is
> one thing. 3D rendering work is quite another. See what I'm getting at?

Are Rahul's needs really a relevant topic?

You're right though, many people are in situations today where they are 
more or less forced to use proprietary solutions; we have more work to do.  
However, people honestly needing 3D rendering to get their work done today, 
are in the minority.   

Anyway, nobody is saying that open source solutions can meet the needs of 
100% of users today.  But there are people that do have all their computing 
needs met by open source today and who don't want any proprietary baggage.  
This group of users has every right to have a distribution designed 
specifically for their needs as anyone else.   Luckily, they have Fedora.

Sean