Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Wed Apr 18 08:58:21 UTC 2007


Valent Turkovic wrote:
> 
> It was hard for me to write this proposal.  Very hard. Because it
> forces change, and change is never welcomed.  Because it's bold, and
> boldness tends to attract enmity.  Because it's probably going to be
> ignored.  And because it may add more complexity to an issue that is
> already complex.  Also keep in mind that English is not my mother
> tongue.

No. Because it is not constructive and it does not say anything new that 
was not already said and countered.

> But in the end, I thought this issue was important, and here we are.
>> From what I've heard, whole flame wars regarding multimedia and
> average user desktop experience have happened before, and they led to
> nothing.  Why not end this issue once and for all, and go on with more
> important matters?

A lot of things happened. For example with Fedora 7 is very easy for 
someone living in the "free world" to create a derivative spin and put 
in it whatever multimedia applications he want and redistribute it 
(probably under a different name), even as a LiveCD.

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