OK, someone pointed this out to me:
<http://www.fedora.us/wiki/RepositoryMixingProblems>
Join us or we'll start reproducing your software in your place anyways. Does this not scream arrogance, bureacracy, and monopoly to anybody else? Does this not seem very Microsoft-ish? Can you actually expect to have a single community to maintain every single piece of free software for Fedora Core (talk about a super bloat to the Fedora Project)? Doesn't this seem to go against some of the good things about free software? It seems that a set of extra libraries and applications that aren't "Core" but are still fundamental or very widely used should be the focus of Fedora Extras. Basically, take some software that is very redundantly distributed by other repositories to reduce overlap and increase compatibility, and not try to take over every package that every other repository makes.
Discuss...
William
