Fedora's way forward

[Eric S. Raymond]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>:
> Because the software would still be in opposition to the goals of the
> Fedora Project.  MP3 support isn't just on the ForbiddenItems list to
> annoy people.  Like many others have stated, the project aims to produce
> a free and open source Linux distribution that is redistributable by
> all.  Having a paid-up royalty for a proprietary technology just so we
> can include it in the distribution defeats the main goal.

See my suggestion about a pointer to a (hypothetical) lame-hosted yum 
repository.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>