Fedora's way forward

[Joe Desbonnet]

This is not indended as a practical solution or idea (the thought
occured to me after a morning espresso fix):

Imagine a small computing device (USB powered memory stick form
factor), containing a processor and memory just powerful enough to
transcode proprietary, patent encumbered media formats into non-patent
encumbered format (note: often transcoding does not require the CPU
resources of a complete decode). The device contains proprietary (but
flashable) firmware with technology licenced from the various rights
holders. From a licencing standpoint it's just like a consumer DVD
player but without all the hardware -- the patent encumbered firmware
is confined to the smallest possible computing space.  </fantasy> :-)
Joe.


On 3/29/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:27 -0500, Rowan Kerr wrote:
> > Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > > OK.  So the next question is, do *Red Hat's* goals no longer include
> > > world desktop domination?  Because if that's true, I need to find a distro
> > > that hasn't ... er ... lost its idealism.
>
> Now when does including mp3 decoders in Fedora equate to world desktop
> domination by Red Hat or idealism?  You have every reason to stutter
> there being a open source evangelist - perceived or otherwise.
>
> >
> > This is what I have been concerned about for a while now. It looks like
> > the next commercial version of Suse will have all kinds of media support
> > through RealPlayer instead of the FOSS-only HelixPlayer. What will the
> > next version of RHEL provide?
>
> Thats a irrelevant discussion for Fedora-devel list really.
>
>
> Rahul
>
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