Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 08:07 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> sort of like saying that if you have the resources you could 
>> assemble a fleet of custom built cars from parts and maintain them 
>> yourself instead of driving standard models.  Yes it could be done.
>> It's just not a good idea, and not something most places should have
>> to do. Especially with free software where it should only have to be
>> done once and everyone should be able to copy it.
> 
> Okay...  But it looks like, that in this case, the someone who creates
> this system is going to be YOU for everyone else, rather than someone
> else for you to be one of the others.

No, we'll keep using Windows on the desktop until someone makes a usable 
  replacement that doesn't take massive customization.  For the same 
reasons that we wouldn't build cars from parts.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com