On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 08:12 +0000, James bond wrote:
(This is a sad noob user rant, please bear me. And sorry in advance for 'whataboutism'.)
IANAL but this is a horrible idea.
It's like parents turning off the internet entirely WiFi because the kid can't be able to watch 'bad' videos. Technically, it solves parents' problems but hampers the kid's study in many ways. Are we going over the board by touching all the way to down to Mesa?
It's pretty clearly delineated what's allowed and not allowed in Fedora's packaging/licensing guidelines. And Fedora is not obligated to package every single thing.
I mean, what's next?
- Remove all torrent software, because it can be used to download...
Juridiction=IANAL, Possibility
- Use LibreKernel because... Juridiction = IANAL, Possibility
- ...
Torrenting is not illegal. Torrenting copyrighting material is. And Fedora has an exception for binary firmware blobs.
This is like triggering the shotgun into your own house. What happens? Users/member of the house shift/leaves the house. I started with F34 and had to already go to heck to achieve a proper video acceleration. And now I hear about this. Truly disappointing and saddening. Reminds me of a possible youtube comment:
Redhat: How hard do you want to make your users suffer? Fedora: yes
This issue has been blown out of proportion. Most people will not be affected, AMD users can still use other codecs, and people are working on workarounds.