The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

[Les Mikesell]

Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
>  
>> The ideal situation is to have volunteers that organize and 
>> maintain the 
>> answers to common questions on the mail list into a wiki so repeat 
>> questions can be answered with a link - or avoided by searching there 
>> first.  However, most of the repeat questions regarding 
>> fedora involve 
>> things that can only be found in 3rd party repositories that 
>> for legal 
>> reasons are not mentioned, and probably can't be on any 
>> official fedora 
>> wiki either.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> Is there something that can't be mentioned on this list?  Can you
> provide an example?

I'm not sure that it can't be mentioned on this list, but the things you 
need to make fedora generally useful won't be mentioned by anyone 
officially connected to fedora.  Where do you get Nvidia drivers?  Where 
do you get multimedia codecs?  How do you install Sun Java?  How do you 
make any commercial product work (flash/vmware/etc., etc.)?  There are 
legal reasons for some of that for a US based company.  Some is just 
anticompetitive philosophy.  Regardless, what users need to know is not 
going to be supplied through any official channel.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com