Suggestion Next Release

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Mar 22 21:41:51 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>> Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You don't understand. We can't make Livna/RPM Fusion official, 
>>>>>> because
>>>>>> of legal issues. And stop here. It's IMPOSSIBLE.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some of it.  Things like the Nvidia drivers wouldn't be impossible.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And a fully functional java.
>>>>
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
>>>
>>> There are some very obvious conflicts on this page.
>>
>> That comment is vague and useless.
> 
> As is a page that embraces usability and "just works" on the one hand 
> and rejects the vendor-supplied drivers that would make it possible on 
> the other.

Objectives are a list of priorities and balances. Besides this is out of 
context quote. Objectives encourage usability in default configuration. 
Default configuration doesn't include proprietary kernel drivers and 
those don't encourage usability nor do they just work anyway.

Rahul




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