[Ambassadors] Re: Fedora 11: What do we expect?
Felix Kaechele
felix at fetzig.org
Sun Feb 1 19:32:40 UTC 2009
Joerg Simon schrieb:
> if it compromise our freedom then it can easy as pie, then we do not want it
Im totally with you. It should be our task to do lobby-work to have more
and more open standards in the world. This will eventually lead to more
open source thinking.
However, basically, nowadays people tend to chose solutions that "Just
Works"(tm) without caring whether it impedes their personal freedom or
not. While this pretty dumb, people often aren't aware that certain
things (in this case software) aren't free even if they are free of cost.
I think the Ambassadors should more actively explain the difference
between gratis and libre [1] to the people.
What I really hate to read is that some people are of the opinion that
Fedora is not aimed to be an easy-to-use distro. Is this really one goal
of Fedora _not_ to be that? I find Fedora pretty easy to use. However I
also think that Fedora has more rough edges than other distros.
Also I don't know in which way it impedes my freedom not to be able to
choose proprietary software. So it would greatly enhance freedom to
include some kind of integration of RPMFusion into Fedora. While I would
always prefer free software over proprietary software there are many
many people who don't. I experienced that some members of the Fedora
community pro actively try to hinder people from using proprietary
software and thus imposing some kind of mindset on them.
I'd rather direct those people to some good literature on open source
and free software (as opposed to proprietary software) and let them
think again.
Felix
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
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