Free?

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

The free in Fedora is for freedom.  It should not be confused with
receiving something for no payment, what is sometimes called "free as in
beer."  This article has more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre

For the rest of your issues, use the original link to seek community
help:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate


On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 10:11 -0400, Stephen Rowe wrote:
> You state in your video player that you strive to keep Fedora free
> yet to play most videos you send me to a pay for the codec site.
> Yet in Kubuntu the codecs are free, why pay you when the other is
> really free, also Flash fails and wants a manual install even thoogh
> I did your installer since the Adobe gives a malformed message.
> So far not very positive as these items have been encountered 
> only 1 day after trying your distro. I am not a big user of Linux but
> am trying to learn. Right now I am trying all the different flavors
> of which Fedroa is supported by a lot of programs I would like
> to try, mostly accounting programs of which Linux lacks for the
> novice. I will not give up easily but others will. If you want to gain
> community support from nvice user you must have the stuff people
> do on the web working. No flash is a no go by the way, so back to
> Kubuntu for a while tio give you time to resolve the issues I have
> encountered, since to me that makes you undesirable.
> 
> I do try to resolve some issues with the terminal but eing a novice
> with Linux usually ends up with reading and installing through
> the terminal that ends up failing anyway. I always seem to get a few
> steps done then having to research the errors. But usualy just
> give up thinking this will not fly for general public use.
> 
> On a side note tho I do see Linux getting better, but not there. Lack
> of program support is one as we have used the same programs that
> has our information or knowledge of how to use it. To start over is a 
> step most are not willing to do. Open Office resolves one portion
> but not all. To you it may be a simple thing to get things to work
> but to the average user it is just about impossible.
> 
> One last note, there is NO WAY I am going to pay Fluendo web shop
> for codecs. To me this seems like a scam, a note to remain free
> yet you send me to a pay site to play a video that plays for free on
> other OS's, yes even free ones! That just plain stinks and will cause
> me in the end to not use your product.. If I knew I was going to use
> your product as my main OS and it was a pay item on the others then
> I would have no problem, but it is not.
-- 
Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr.
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