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

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:57:57AM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
> But we're beyond the age of this kind of symbiosis, Linux (or
> GNU/Linux ...) and Fedora in particular doesn't need this anymore.

The actual reality, real stuff in the real world, is that 90%+ of
users of desktop computer systems run Windows, another 5%+ are running
Mac OS X, and almost nobody (perhaps 10, 100 people in the whole
world?) are running a completely free operating system (inc.  BIOS
etc).

Rich.


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Richard Jones
Red Hat