Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) [LWN.net]

Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

Posted Nov 9, 2006 0:27 UTC (Thu) by ofeeley (subscriber, #36105)
In reply to: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) by bronson
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

Not entirely. As someone that was irked by the presentation of this and would rather that it had been handled otherwise there was a definite reluctance by the Fedora Board to simply prostitute the distribution to the whims of proprietary hardware purchasers and the Board was divided on the issue. The statement issued on whether or not an update of the Xorg packages was warranted clearly noted that there was a balance between slightly increased functionality for Free Software users versus avoiding breakage for those unlucky enough to be saddled with proprietary hardware.

I think that the discussion around this issue showed that the Fedora community and its representatives on the Fedora Board are doing anything but bending over in the way that the short-sighted reviewer would like. I'd like to add my thanks to DaveJ and others for having the clarity of thought to resist the impulse to go the Ubuntu root.

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