The Multimedia Question

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 14:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Is helping desktop users outside of the ideology of Fedora?
> > 
> > I would argue that we're not helping them when they end up with
> > proprietary junk on their system.
> > 
> > Users may not care. We care.
> 
> See: firmware. Oh wait, we like that! 

I don't like the fact that we have to have firmware without source.
However, firmware is a far more necessary evil than enabling Windows
Media file support.

Firmware is also something that should've been done on the hardware in a
perfect world, WMV support is a little different.

And yes, I'm splitting hairs. I don't think firmware is really software,
and media codecs obviously are.

~spot