[Fedora-packaging] supporting closed source operating systems? (was: Early MinGW packaging guidelines draft)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:58:20PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MinGW
>
> What is Fedora's motivation is promoting using Open Source on a closed
> source operating system? This is beyond the FPC to decide as this is a
> technical committee, but still a valid question and maybe one that the
> board should be investigating.
>

Because people have to live in a world of compromise and have to
install windows, solaris, etc in virtual environments, etc.. and if
they can't well the company can go buy a closed source solution that
will. Usually when that happens you can pack up all those Fedora,
CentOS, etc systems on your way out :(.


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Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
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