Fedora's way forward

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 07:40 +1200, Michael J Knox wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > [Please quote more appropriately rather than including the entire mail
> > while replying to it]
> > 
> >> Right on the money Eric.
> >>
> >> I love Fedora Core. In the world of Linux it is The Class Act. However I
> >> would like to see it's core philosophical paradigm expanded to
> >> accommodate the pragmatic reality of what the average user really wants
> >> and what he actually installs on his Fedora machine in practice.
> > 
> > You mean to say that Fedora should give up its support towards Free and
> > open source software and adopt proprietary formats and software in the
> > name of pragmatism. Not a good idea IMO. There are already other
> > distributions out there which does this if this is really the only thing
> > you want. 
> 
> Rahul,
> 
> I don't see where he said give up on free and open source formats and 
> software. 

Adding support for proprietary formats would heavily reduce the
incentive for people to use Free formats. Thats my take on it.

Rahul