Good bye

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 00:42:43 UTC 2008


On Jan 30, 2008 6:12 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> >> But that has nothing to do with my point about enabling the user to
> >> install additional software which is why I have an operating system in
> >> the first place.
> >
> > Everyone here knows the deal with Fedora. They don't promote non OSS
> > software for partly legal and (in my opinion, might be wrong) partly
> > philosophical reasons against closed source.
>
> My point has nothing to do with promoting anything or whether the
> additional software meets your religious beliefs or not.  It is strictly
> about providing a user with a platform that is not limited by design or
> its inability to provide stable interfaces.

You say limit by design, I say do not support. Limit by design would
be to hard code repos into yum. Not support would be to not provide
all repos in yum by default.

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