Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[David Boles]

Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> A big company taking the moral stand versus a handful of users taking an
>>> opposite moral stand.  Guess which one wins?
> 
> Francis Earl:
>> I don't see how setting up livna, or complaining about the contents
>> therein not being in Fedora is a moral stand? It's just lazy and/or
>> ignorant.
> 
> Do I really need to spell it out?  In the red corner we have a company
> that has taken a stand on what they will and won't do.  In the blue
> corner we have a user that has taken a stand that if the system doesn't
> do what they think it should do, to hell with them...
> 
> Both sides are posturing about principles, but he's no David, and
> Goliath isn't disturbed.


The true difference here is that 'the company' can be sued for doing things 
that are illegal. And they, 'the company', chose not to do those things. And 
that they also have standards and principles that they chose to follow. 
Clearly stated. Open to view. Often repeated.

The user is unhappy about that and knows of other distributions that don't 
care if they do things that are illegal and that don't have standards and 
principles. The user, if he wishes to remain with Fedora, should either deal 
with what 'this distribution' choses to do, following the laws and their 
principles, and quietly deal with these minor problems. They really are minor 
to those that know what they are doing in Linux. Or to those that can read, 
comprehend, and follow simple directions.

Or the user could chose to move on to those distributions that don't care if 
they do things that are illegal and that have no standards and no principles.

These seems like really, really simple solutions. Either way the user choses 
to decide.
-- 


   David

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