Fedora's way forward

[Michael J Knox]

sean wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:20:25 +0200
> Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Please speak for yourself and not on behalve of the entire Fedora 
>> Community. Which Sean are you anyway? I can't find much on you and 
>> Fedora, I otoh maintain many FE packages and use my full name.
>>
>> I for one wouldn't mind pointers and even install help to (100% legally 
>> ok) proprietary software if this will significantly boost the end user 
>> experience.
>>
>> With this said I do believe that we should be carefull with this, if 
>> there is a free tool which does 95% of the job, then we should not 
>> include links to proprietary alternatives. There is however no free tool 
>> which will allow people to access all those mp3 files from for example 
>> www.magnatune.com.
> 
> Even if you wouldn't mind it, it's against the stated goals of the 
> project.   Everyone has a perference one way or the other, some wouldn't
> mind, some would.   That's why the objectives of the project were
> very carefully laid out.  Please see Rahul's recent post if you think my 
> interpretation of the basic premise of the Fedora project is wrong.
> 
> Besides, adding third party repositories is already easy and getting 
> easier all the time.
> 

Since it is pretty clear that Fedora Core will not accommodate 3rd party 
closed source applications, why don't those that would have like to have 
this get together and make a solution?

http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_fc5

The above link is a prime example of how this subject could be 
approached (its still very rough, but a good start). Add in some support 
from the pre existing 3rd party repo guys and you could have a winning 
solution.

There is obviously no single silver bullet for this issue, but instead 
of theorizing about what Fedora should/shouldn't/can/won't/etc do, why 
don't those that have a common interest stand up to the plate and work 
on the issue outside of Fedora Core?

Perhaps Fedora can meet the effort by providing a link or something like 
that to the project.

Just a thought.

Michael