It's about time those clowns showed some backbone

I'm assuming for purposes of this post that "esr" really is Eric Raymond.  I'm sure Jonathan
will inform us if my assumption is incorrect.

What a crass and nonconstructive post.  If you want to be considered a community leader... and
it is pretty obvious that you do... you need to act like one.  That means being constructive,
and employing at east a basic level of diplomacy.  Fedora and Ubuntu are two different
distros.  They share some focus in some areas, and differ in others.  I use Fedora on my
desktop, Ubuntu on my laptop, and a mix of Fedora and CentOS on my clients' servers.  As a
user, I have been frustrated, at times, with RedHat/Fedora's approach to the whole mp3/codecs
issue.  But I have always *respected* them.  And I have refrained from the kind of useless
petty griping that I see in your post here.  And in my opinion, you should, too.