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Video forums for free software

Posted Apr 10, 2008 5:28 UTC (Thu) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172)
Parent article: Video forums for free software

Be nice if the fedora project released their code to the Firefox Flicks stuff, as that is a
nice piece of software for hosting and voting on videos. I assume that Fedora project is
looking at hosting video mostly for marketing purposes, something the Ubuntu Marketing Team
has discussed from time to time.

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Posted Apr 10, 2008 9:04 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

You probably meant Firefox instead of Fedora in the first sentence. Fedora does not develop or
use any proprietary software or service and doesn't have a non-free repository either. 

Fedora Project is interested in promoting a platform for content under open formats. Marketing
videos are only a very small portion of that effort.

Video forums for free software

Posted Apr 10, 2008 16:37 UTC (Thu) by jebba (✭ supporter ✭, #4439) [Link]

Rahul wrote:
"Fedora does not develop or use any proprietary software"

Fedora ships proprietary software in the form of firmware directly in the Linux kernel and
also in various proprietary *-firmware.rpm packages.