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Re: Good bye

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(at)gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 12:44:43 EST


Arthur Pemberton wrote:

>>> However, I see no evidence that this is
>>> intentional on the Fedora teams part. Nor do I see how it would
>>> benefit them from exhausting energy into blocking things.
>> Whether it is a benefit or not depends on the user experience they want
>> to generate.  Who would it harm to provide instructions for installing
>> common and needed vendor-provide drivers, for example?  Is it necessary
>> to be hostile to both your own users and the best hardware vendors, or
>> the company that invented java and wants to give it away?

>
> Instructions from say the community since Fedora is a community based
> distribution?
> * fedorasolved.org
> * fedoraunity.org

If some entity in the community provided a repository containing, for example, the Nvidia drivers that many users need, could said entity get their repository configuration included in this "community based distribution" to make installation automatic?

> I think you're way offline with considering lack of support for this
> that you did not pay for with being hostile.

And I think it is reasonable to compare it to other distributions like ubuntu instead of just assuming that the hostility should push users to the for-pay version conveniently provided by a related company.

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