codec buddy pain

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 5 15:32:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 07:20 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 15:14 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/256974/
> > 
> > Btw - in the interview they mention further integration of the webstore
> > into codeina/codecbuddy. If it starts looking like we're pushing closed
> > source software then that, imo, is when codeina gets dumped out of the
> > distribution.
> 
> Agreed; we should not be shipping a shill.
> 
> > I don't care about needles and I don't want to ween the addicts off.
> 
> People who build their houses on the top of the hill so the addicts in
> the valley don't steal from them are just delaying the inevitable.
> 
> We can remove ourselves from the problem entirely, but it doesn't make
> the problem go away, and it doesn't stop it from growing larger (again)
> to engulf us.

If that's the case then we should just give up on this quixotic goal of
having a pure-free-software distro and start talking to companies for
how they'd like us to provide their closed-source packages and how to
tie a webstore frontend into yum.

</jonathan swift>

-sv





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