What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ...

[Alan Cox]

> I had high hopes the Fedora repository and approach would expand and gain
> more wide spread use thus making it even easier to pull-together a fully 
> functional workstation/desktop.

I still hope that will happen

> Red Hat hasn't wanted to or been able to deal with.  The things needed 
> to provide my customers
> (and myself) a reasonable, competitive alternative to Windows

There is a difference between changing laws and breaking them. There are
many pieces of software that can't be used in some countries and the 
framework exists to allow people to operate such repositories and others
to use them. 

In the US there its a matter of changing the law or buying
packages including patent licenses.