The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 13:53:16 UTC 2008
Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
>
>> The ideal situation is to have volunteers that organize and
>> maintain the
>> answers to common questions on the mail list into a wiki so repeat
>> questions can be answered with a link - or avoided by searching there
>> first. However, most of the repeat questions regarding
>> fedora involve
>> things that can only be found in 3rd party repositories that
>> for legal
>> reasons are not mentioned, and probably can't be on any
>> official fedora
>> wiki either.
>
> Huh?
>
> Is there something that can't be mentioned on this list? Can you
> provide an example?
I'm not sure that it can't be mentioned on this list, but the things you
need to make fedora generally useful won't be mentioned by anyone
officially connected to fedora. Where do you get Nvidia drivers? Where
do you get multimedia codecs? How do you install Sun Java? How do you
make any commercial product work (flash/vmware/etc., etc.)? There are
legal reasons for some of that for a US based company. Some is just
anticompetitive philosophy. Regardless, what users need to know is not
going to be supplied through any official channel.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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