What do we think of this?

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> Honestly, I think all of these comments come from one pivotal issue:
>
> Fedora won't break US law.
>
> Debian will. Ubuntu will. SuSE will. Gentoo will.
>
> Thus, there is no need for "extra" repositories to arise for these Linux
> distributions. And the average user wants to have software that breaks
> the law (mp3, dvd, etc). So they have to go outside the safety zone that
> is the distribution for Fedora, and here there be dragons.
>
> This problem sucks. It has always sucked. We're playing by the rules,
> where no one else is, and we're getting punished for it, while they
> prosper.
>
> The rules (US law) are broken. I just have no idea how to fix it in my
> lifetime, much less in the period of relevance for Fedora.

I think you're right.

So let me ask this question.

For other distros, do they mix free/non-free in the same repo?  And for 
the ones that do not do this -- for the ones who have separate 
free/non-free repos -- how do they manage to keep content in sync between 
them?

--g

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