Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Apr 28 20:56:51 UTC 2008


Francis Earl wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 07:58 +0930, Tim wrote:
>> Tim:
>>>> A big company taking the moral stand versus a handful of users taking an
>>>> opposite moral stand.  Guess which one wins?
>> Francis Earl:
>>> I don't see how setting up livna, or complaining about the contents
>>> therein not being in Fedora is a moral stand? It's just lazy and/or
>>> ignorant.
>> Do I really need to spell it out?  In the red corner we have a company
>> that has taken a stand on what they will and won't do.  In the blue
>> corner we have a user that has taken a stand that if the system doesn't
>> do what they think it should do, to hell with them...
>>
>> Both sides are posturing about principles, but he's no David, and
>> Goliath isn't disturbed.
> 
> Using that analogy, Ubuntu is Davids stone... throw away.
> 
> People that use Fedora believe in its philosophies, if they're not for
> you, there are around 300 more distros to pick and choose from.
> 
> Having that many distros should be proof enough that one size doesn't
> fit all.
> 
> Given the breadth of choices available to the Linux user, why should
> RedHat cave to those that believe playing an MP3 out of the box is worth
> risking their company over?
> 
> Fedora has never been intended for your Grandparents, it is intended for
> people that wish to play with the latest and greatest Linux has to
> offer.
> 
Grandparents != casual users

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