[fab] Lone Wolves - Web, game, and open source development

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michael Tiemann wrote:
> Given all the discussion we recently had on the fedora lists about
> where, precisely to draw the line between acceptable and not acceptable
> when it comes to 3rd-party drivers and BIOS blobs, it looks like the
> conversation is moving toward the center of the Ubunutu community as
> well...
> 
> http://www.jejik.com/articles/2006/11/is_ubuntu_set_to_become_non-free 

Installing proprietary drivers were very much the thing not the thing to 
do (compared to user space proprietary applications) sometime back. This 
is somewhat a risky move that might yield short term advantages but the 
long term implications of a mainstream distribution doing something like 
this and messages that is convey is not so positive.

I think this makes it even more important for Fedora to stick with the 
principles and put more focus into Free software than ever but there are 
good conversations going on in the Fedora summit solving some of the 
problems like mp3 codecs in a legal way without compromising on that. 
Interesting times.

Rahul