Legal Update

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 13:36:51 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 10:57 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 8:25 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's what I think is hilarious about this whole debate:  People who
> > want support for feature/codec/package X still have to find out how to
> > do that.  Where do they find out, if we don't publish it on our official
> > one-click page?
> 
> Too many pronouns I'm not following so I'm not sure exactly what part
> of your logic I should be shaking my fist at in rage. I want to shake
> my fist and foam and the mouth and yell at you, but I can't figure out
> why.

Sorry if I was unclear.  My point was that trying to walk this
particular legal line -- a very fine one at that -- is making the value
of our possibly-soon-to-be-published verbiage practically nil.  

Joe wants support for turning CDs into MP3s.  If we can only tell him
"You can find support for things we can't carry at <URL>," how has that
really helped Joe?  He already has to go to some other location,
presumably an unofficial forum or FAQ, in order to discover which
packages he needs to "yum install" to get the support he wants.
Instead, we send him to the repository, which really only has directions
on how to get the repo configured, as opposed to actual help.

I am not saying we should go further.  I am saying that what we *are*
considering is practically useless, since Joe would have gone to the
forum/FAQ/<some_URL> anyway to find out what he needed to do.  Advice
through those channels would already include configuring the repo, so we
wouldn't be cutting out a step, really, or giving Joe anything of real
value.

Rage away!  :-)

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