Three Observations

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Sat Jun 16 23:23:14 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 17:55 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
> > Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> Mauriat M wrote:
> >>
> >>> As for Skype and for anything closed source, Fedora realistically
> >>> cannot support such applications.
> >>
> >> What do you mean by 'support'?  Applications only need a working and 
> >> documented interface provided by the operating system.  Is Fedora a 
> >> poor choice to provide that?
> >>
> > 
> > No.  But whose fault is it when something goes wrong?
> 
> If the application works on other systems, then it's pretty likely that 
> the OS version is not providing the standard interface as documented.
Or that the ones where it works are not correct, but were possibly the
ones used to develop it?

Regards,
Les H




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