supporting closed source operating systems?

[Harald Hoyer]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 12:48 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 19:30 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is a rephrasing of Jeff's brigth line that he seeks to
>>> draw and wants to know what it will include and what not.
>> Thanks for this post, for me it did a good job of separating the
>> technical from $other considerations.
>>
>> The Fedora brand is a Linux brand.  It makes sense to have some
>> Microsoft Windows stuff where it supports that story, such as tools to
>> assist migration ... to Linux.  The libvirt pieces seem, to me, to be a
>> good enough fit and belong on this side of the bright line.
>>
>> But we need to make it clear that we are not going to morph Fedora into
>> being some super-meta-FLOSS thing.  So, to me, the productivity apps
>> belong on the other side of the bright line.  If we want to be involved
>> in helping people switch from Microsoft Windows by supporting
>> productivity FLOSS stacks that runs on that OS, it should be under a
>> brand other than Fedora.  Such as "Mozilla". ;-D
>>
> 
> Thanks Karsten. I agree with the above.
> 
> -sv

Agreed also. Well said.