The Multimedia Question

[Josh Boyer]

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! 

If you have a PCI card that has a hardware MP3 decoder that requires
proprietary firmware that is freely redistributable, we'll gladly take
that.

josh"firmware-is-software-but-not-in-the-traditional-sense-of-software-and-i-think-you-already-know-that-so-i'll-ignore-you"