Fedora Core 2 - review.

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

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