Why people are not switching to Fedora

[Nikos Roussos]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I do understand that having multimedia support is important user wise,
> and I'm more than happy to spend time trying to educate people - I'm
> not in favour of any changes that encourage people to install software
> that is not FOSS.

I don't think anyone is talking about non-free software. For instance 
vlc is completely Free Software, although i can't be included to our 
repos due to the current policy around codecs.

To be clear. I'm not saying we should include vlc to our repos, just 
clarifying that we are not talking about non-free software.

> 4) People should know what FOSS is about.
> 5) People should know what intellectual property rights are.

So the first point is covered as mentioned above. I agree about 
educating people about intellectual property but someone could argue 
that this can be done in an "automated" way inside Gnome Software. See 
for instance Hughes' post on how a user can make an educated decision 
about installing non-free software (in this case Chrome). Same thing 
can happen for non-free codecs. Gnome Software could deliver RPMFusion 
metadata.

You can't protect users freedom by removing freedom of choice.


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