Fedora's way forward

[sean]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:41:19 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> See my suggestion about a dedicated yum repository with a button in
> Fedora that says "Push this to download MP3 support".  Users of Fedora
> and all derivatives could use such a mechanism.

It's already easy to add third party repositories.   No need for
anything more.
                                                                Again
> > its not merely proprietary but also shackled by patents. Are you happy
> > with just adding support for mp3 or would WMA support follow up on that
> > next?
> 
> Since you mention it, yes.  If we can support what users want to do, we should.

Sorry, you're wrong.  Unfortunately for the users that want that feature, 
Fedora is made for users that don't want it. 

Sean