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.