On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:45, Greg Swallow wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:43:19 +0100 Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > ... But to me what you described is called moral harassment... > > Might be harassment, but it is the reality we run into every today. > > More to point, Windows and/or Mac OS do not delivery with such content > and, if Red Hat/Fedora wants business to seriously consider their > product, it should do the same. Else businesses will continue to buy > Windows and Mac OS and keep Linux in the closet. > > Just as I will be doing this morning. I am considering one final > hardware purchase to try to get nVidia running correctly on my boxes; > one RHE WS3 and one FC2. If it will or does not work, I will drop Linux > completely for our workstations and move these boxes out as servers. No > GUI no problem. > > My employees do not need Linux at all. They are willing to go along with > the change just to save me money. In turn, I am willing to spend money > to protect them from any absurd legal dispute. That is why I am making a > decision based on such a case 'history.' > ---- I think there are a lot of excellent points being raised here. I hope that this discussion is being picked up by proper Red Hat employees but you can't count on it. I would suggest that those who are offended put in a bugzilla report and ask to have the offensive content be removed as bugzilla forces people to consider and respond - and you can be relatively confident that the decision to exclude or include the offending content is evaluated by Red Hat managers. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> - be certain to reference Fedora core and xscreensaver Craig
