Fedora Extras is extra

[William M. Quarles]

OK, someone pointed this out to me:

<http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems>

Join us or we'll start reproducing your software in your place anyways. 
  Does this not scream arrogance, bureacracy, and monopoly to anybody 
else?  Does this not seem very Microsoft-ish?  Can you actually expect 
to have a single community to maintain every single piece of free 
software for Fedora Core (talk about a super bloat to the Fedora 
Project)?  Doesn't this seem to go against some of the good things about 
free software?  It seems that a set of extra libraries and applications 
that aren't "Core" but are still fundamental or very widely used should 
be the focus of Fedora Extras.  Basically, take some software that is 
very redundantly distributed by other repositories to reduce overlap and 
increase compatibility, and not try to take over every package that 
every other repository makes.

Discuss...

William