why o why [off topic]

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:39 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com>:
> 
> > > Whats wrong On Document for deployment of Oracle on fedora or RHEL
> > 
> > 
> > I am not claiming that its wrong but I would like a discussion (not just
> > between us) before it gets accepted officially. So I am dropping off
> > this conversation until others participate in it
> 
> I'd like to see it, but I'd like to see it in a separate section,
> so that people know that it documents something that is not a part
> of Fedora Core releases, but can be used with Fedora Core releases.
> 
> So, I'd vote to have a separate section for non-Fedora Core included
> software.  I don't care if the software is Open Source or not so much
> as I care that it is not part of the distribution, really.  I'd consider
> it all "Third Party" software, whether open source or not.

I think this is not a moot point.

Fedora Project is about building a general purpose OS from free
components.  That includes the documentation.

There are plenty of people dedicated to making non-free software work
and documenting that.  It's really not our purpose here.

If we were a general-purpose Linux documentation project like, say,
TLDP, then we could consider all cases of everything that runs under
Linux.  But we are a Fedora documentation project.

Until Oracle is open source and shipping as part of Core or Extras, I
don't think we can devote any more space to discussing or writing it.

> > For your information I have been arguing that LDP move its documentation
> > on non-free software to a seperate section or remove it altogether. You
> 
> I agree on the separate section, at least for FDP, but not to remove it.
> If people want to write it, it is of high quality and usefulness, then
> allow it.  But I'd like to make clear that it is separate from the
> FC distribution, hence the idea of a separate "Third Party Software"
> documentation section.

When FC has a Third Party Software repository, we can document it.

To be honest, we have enough work to do already without having to do
Oracle, Nvidia et al's work for them.

- Karsten
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