The Multimedia Question

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:03 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:41 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:24 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > >> And let's not forget that we already "shill" for other folks... The
> > >> bittorrent-gui app features a "Donate" button.  Note that I am not
> > >> saying that is a bad thing.
> > >
> > > Again, shilling is not the issue here.
> > >
> > > Helping Fluendo sell proprietary software is WELL outside of the
> > > ideology of Fedora.
> > 
> > Is helping desktop users outside of the ideology of Fedora?
> 
> It is if pushing proprietary software is required to do so.

okay, let's calm down a bit. It is not such a dichotomy, I don't think.

Fluendo is AN OPTION it is not the only option. Which is why we wanted
codec buddy to work as I mentioned before.

Spot, Josh, would either of you be upset if our page that explained what
better codecs were available and why the bad ones were bad and what it
does to our culture and software development and the fate of the world
also threw out the 'but if you still want to commit this act of heinous
evil, here are the options we are legally allowed to show you'

-sv