Fedora Core 2 - review.
Benjamin J. Weiss
benjamin at weiss.name
Mon May 24 12:17:24 UTC 2004
From: "Davy Brion" <ralinx at pandora.be>
> I know Red Hat can't support this stuff in Fedora from a legal point of
> view, but it is hurting linux adoption IMHO. No matter how much better
> our alternatives are (like Ogg Vorbis for instance), if we can't support
> what other people are using, a lot of people simply won't care about how
> much better our alternatives are. I'm talking about regular people.
> The kind of people who don't even know a site is using Flash, or what
> MP3 or MPEG is all about... they simply don't care. And if Linux
> systems don't support these technologies, to them it will seem as if
> Linux can't do as much as Windows can.
>
> We may have the best technology, but you can't expect people to use it
> if they don't want to use it.
Case in point: Betamax VCR's versus VHS. Beta was better, but people
didn't switch because they already had VHS...
Ben
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