Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 01:21:52 UTC 2008


Francis Earl wrote:
>
> It is those things though that halt growth on consumer desktops, so
> until such issues are resolved, Novell and Red Hat will never appeal
> much to Joe User. Technically uninclined people do not care about such
> issues, they just want to play their media library, use their webcams
> and other similar things, and have their games work.
> 
> Until Red Hat and Novell can answer these questions in a way that allows
> them to profit enough to appease shareholders, they will never have a
> good consumer desktop product offering. I think Ubuntu is
> counter-productive to that goal though, they are just ensuring consumers
> continue to not care, rather than trying to really inform them in an
> effective way.

What would you like to inform them about?  That it's a bad idea to use 
an OS that doesn't include licensed codecs as part of its cost and 
doesn't run itunes?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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