KDE RedHat project

[Sean]

On Sun, August 21, 2005 3:07 pm, Steve Bergman said:

> What I keep hearing in this thread is that RedHat's position as the
> "managing entity" of Fedora is holding Fedora back in the area of
> multimedia.

Not really, just not embracing proprietary multimedia formats.  It's a
question of priorities.

> Don't get me wrong; most Fedora work gets done by people with redhat.com
> email addresses.  But it is true that RedHat represents a nice *central*
> target for a legal suit, which is just what patent holders like.  It's
> so old-school and comfortable to have some central entity, with money,
> to attack.  How might the promised Fedora Foundation change this?
>
> Personally, I'd be happy if the installation offered the ability to add
> entries to yum.repos.d (a big hurdle for newbies) which was not limited
> to, but did include Livna, accompanied by the expected stern warnings
> about respecting your local laws.

It would be good to make it easier to install yum repo entries; for
instance by just clicking on a web page link.   The actual links wouldn't
have to be provided or even referenced by Fedora.

> Adding repositories is not a big deal for us old hands;  It's just a
> PITA, nothing more.  But the newbie is already overwhelmed by switching
> OSes.  To them, "Fedora just doesn't support multimedia".  All
> discussions of "feature parity" aside, when's the last time you saw an
> Ogg Theora stream on Yahoo's site?

There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem here.   We need to create a
demand for free formats at the same time as creating a supply.

Cheers,
Sean