The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell

> I'm not sure that it can't be mentioned on this list, but the 
> things you 
> need to make fedora generally useful won't be mentioned by anyone 
> officially connected to fedora.  Where do you get Nvidia 
> drivers?  Where 
> do you get multimedia codecs?  How do you install Sun Java?  
> How do you 
> make any commercial product work (flash/vmware/etc., etc.)?  
> There are 
> legal reasons for some of that for a US based company.  Some is just 
> anticompetitive philosophy.  Regardless, what users need to 
> know is not 
> going to be supplied through any official channel.

Les,

That is what I am questioning.  It seems that you are suggesting that
the makers of Fedora can't even tell us where to get Nvidia ( yes, just
an example ), let alone include them with a distro or part of the
automagic update process.  Even Ubuntu does that with their 3rd party
option when chosing what to install or update.

What law or contract is broken when a company provides a link to another
company's site?  Particularly, when that other company would want to
have that link.

Or have I completely misunderstood and need to do some reading?  Got
some sites?

thanks,
Michael

























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