Fedora Core 2 - review.

[Sean Estabrooks]

On Mon, 24 May 2004 07:17:24 -0500
"Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at weiss.name> wrote:

> From: "Davy Brion" <ralinx at pandora.be>
> > I know Red Hat can't support this stuff in Fedora from a legal point of
> > view, but it is hurting linux adoption IMHO.  No matter how much better
> > our alternatives are (like Ogg Vorbis for instance), if we can't support
> > what other people are using, a lot of people simply won't care about how
> > much better our alternatives are.  I'm talking about regular people.
> > The kind of people who don't even know a site is using Flash, or what
> > MP3 or MPEG is all about... they simply don't care.  And if Linux
> > systems don't support these technologies, to them it will seem as if
> > Linux can't do as much as Windows can.
> >
> > We may have the best technology, but you can't expect people to use it
> > if they don't want to use it.
> 
> Case in point:  Betamax VCR's versus VHS.  Beta was better, but people
> didn't switch because they already had VHS...
> 
> Ben

Case in point.   People switch to DVD because it's better.   Even though
it's not compatible with their current technology.

Sean