The Forgotten "F": A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

[drago01]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400,
>   Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't think it's unreasonable for us to allow them to use Chrome
>> from the Google repository. I don't think it's unreasonable to allow
>> them to use Steam from the Valve repository. Device drivers get into
>> hazy territory, but I think it's a conversation worth having.
>
>
> I think there is a difference between allow and promote.
>
> I would be especially wary of promoting something like steam without some
> strong warnings as steam is going to be doing some amount of spying on you
> to enforce their DRM and is going to be significantly modifying the graphics
> system and breakage in that area is not going to be supportable by Fedora.
>

"going to be significantly modifying the graphics system"  ... what
does that even mean?
afaik it does not do any such a thing. It is just an X / SDL2 + OpenGL
application like any other ("just" closed source).