Why questions don't get answered, or "No, I've already RTFM, tell me the answer!"

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 19:04 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> --- Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:38, John Summerfied wrote:
> > 
> > > Today, I suggest that
> > > If you want stability and support, buy RHEL in the
> > appropriate flavour
> > > If you want stability and cheap, download one of
> > the EL clones such as 
> > > TAO, CENTOS, WBEL (are there more?)
> > > If you want the latest and can bear the occasional
> > breakage, use Fedora 
> > > Core 4.
> > > If you don't care for stability and/or want to
> > help refine things, 
> > > Fedora Core 5 beta (maybe blend in some rawhide?)
> > is for you.
> > 
> > But realistically, what people want is close-to-the
> > latest plus
> > some stuff that none of the above includes, like
> > mplayer, xine,
> > xmms with mp3 support, java, flash and the browser
> > plugins for
> > them, etc., so you want FC3 or FC4 with all current
> > updates
> > and a bunch of 3rd party packages.   It can be done,
> > but
> > it's not necessarily pretty.
> > 
> 
> Very well said.  Users want a product that just works
> straight out without having to "search, yum their way,
> compile their way", etc with all the great stuff 
> "
> mplayer, xine,
>  xmms with mp3 support, java, flash and the browser
>  plugins for
>  them, etc.
> "
> 
> and since Red Hat is "releasing"/"has released" Fedora
> on its own, why not have all these things within
> Fedora.  No more trademarks/patents other difficulties
> to get what users want.  What is holding Fedora Back
> now?  
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licensing restrictions - which of course has nothing to do with Red
Hat's involvement or non-involvement with Fedora.
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> By the way is this the longest thread of the year, or
> will it be Peter Whalley, petsupermarket.uol.br 
> Enquiring minds want to know.
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who cares?

Craig