Good bye
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 17:44:43 UTC 2008
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> However, I see no evidence that this is
>>> intentional on the Fedora teams part. Nor do I see how it would
>>> benefit them from exhausting energy into blocking things.
>> Whether it is a benefit or not depends on the user experience they want
>> to generate. Who would it harm to provide instructions for installing
>> common and needed vendor-provide drivers, for example? Is it necessary
>> to be hostile to both your own users and the best hardware vendors, or
>> the company that invented java and wants to give it away?
>
> Instructions from say the community since Fedora is a community based
> distribution?
> * fedorasolved.org
> * fedoraunity.org
If some entity in the community provided a repository containing, for
example, the Nvidia drivers that many users need, could said entity get
their repository configuration included in this "community based
distribution" to make installation automatic?
> I think you're way offline with considering lack of support for this
> that you did not pay for with being hostile.
And I think it is reasonable to compare it to other distributions like
ubuntu instead of just assuming that the hostility should push users to
the for-pay version conveniently provided by a related company.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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