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Posted Feb 23, 2007 13:52 UTC (Fri) by dark (guest, #8483)
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

ESR's complaints about Fedora are a bit vague. Allow me to clarify them here.

* Chronic governance problems.
Translation: They refused to distribute non-free codecs.

* Persistent failure to maintain key repositories in a sane, consistent state from which upgrades might actually be possible.
Translation: Upgrade didn't work for me today. Then when I tried to force it, it broke.

* A murky, poorly-documented, over-complex submission process.
Translation: QA is a pain. They rejected my package.

* Allowing RPM development to drift and stagnate -- then adding another layer of complexity, bugs, and wretched performance with yum.
Translation: Upgrade didn't work for me today. Then when I tried to force it, it broke.

* Effectively abandoning the struggle for desktop market share.
Translation: They refused to distribute non-free codecs.

* Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats with any attitude other than blank denial.
Translation: They refused to distribute non-free codecs.