a call to action [Fwd: LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise]

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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Karsten Wade wrote:
> In the article referenced below there is an (implied) call to action for
> Fedora:
> 
> "One might well wonder why certain Fedora users feel the need to repeat
> these complaints so often. Perhaps the project is not doing an adequate
> job of communicating what it is trying to do. One assumes that, if
> people understood what Fedora is, they would not complain about it not
> being something it can never be."

I would tend to believe that is more the result of a tradeoff between
convenience and sticking to a distribution's moral and/or ethical
standpoint. For example, till the time Intel Graphics cards became the
flavor of the month the company was clubbed in the same evil circle as
NVidia or even ATI. But with time and sufficient effort invested by
Intel and the distributions, things have changed. This means that an
average home user can be asked to get a system that provides reasonable
bling and yet not have to install binary bl0bs to get them.

A tendency to howl in pain saying "Fedora sucks" had been around since
the time the mp3 support was withdrawn. The "blame Fedora" is more to do
with "it works in F00 Distribution so why can't you". The only way to
counter this is perhaps keep on spreading the message through as many
means we can - blogs, Ambassadors being among the well trod ones.

:Sankarshan


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You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
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