Make a periphery around the Core

Horst von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Mon Aug 22 20:12:21 UTC 2005


Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 20:07, Steve Bergman wrote:
> > 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.

> Redhat being well-funded brings into being the potential for attacks that
> would otherwise make no sense if it were someone else distributing
> Fedora.  So it seems to me reasonable they keep completely away from
> anything inviting attack.

I'd want to think they keep away from propietary formats (and software with
murky legal status) as a matter of principle, not because they might get
sued otherwise...
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