Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Timothy Selivanow]

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:51 -0700, Timothy Selivanow wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Francis Earl wrote:
> > > It has everything to do with legalities, as the source code for the
> > > encoders/decoders is available.
> > 
> > Not everything that fedora makes difficult is illegal.  Sun Java, for 
> > one example, the drivers provided by the vendors of the hardware users 
> > have chosen to purchase for another.

<removed my drivel>

Oh, in my heated rant, I also forgot to mention that it might also have
precluded FESCO decision on the ability to make spins...as *all* Fedora
derivatives (albeit only the ones that included Java) would also have to
sign the DLJ, which would make things more difficult and non-trivial to
make a spin.

"Oh, you'd like to make a spin and possibly add some functionality to
Fedora?  Please sign these 3rd party documents.  You agree to abide
by..."


I'm not even going to go into the hardware debate, as that was a
couple(?) of weeks ago already.  I know where I stand, and I know where
you, Les, stand.  I happen to agree with Fedora and I am OK with that.


--Tim
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