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Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)Posted Nov 9, 2006 5:44 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) by Burgundavia Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)
As long as distributions continue to install proprietary drivers without even the explicit consent of the users while superficially claiming to support free software, the situation is going to remain just the same. The goal should be to collectively resist that. When hardware people lose market share to competition due to the absence of Free sotware and open source drivers, they will open up the specs or even participate in the kernel development process. Many kernel developers consider distribution of such proprietary drivers a violation of the GPL license as well.
The upstream delta reduction work pointed out seems to be focussed on the desktop while Fedora there is usually low number of patches on the desktop components and the following upstream as much as possible is considered a distribution wide policy.
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Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) Posted Nov 9, 2006 6:12 UTC (Thu) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172) [Link] If you read the first link I sent, it is clearly aimed at the entire distribution. The DesktopTeam link is merely an example.
Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) Posted Nov 9, 2006 6:52 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
I will believe it when the number of distribution specific patches in the kernel, GNOME and other places actually go down.
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