On Jan 30, 2008 6:12 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > >> But that has nothing to do with my point about enabling the user to > >> install additional software which is why I have an operating system in > >> the first place. > > > > Everyone here knows the deal with Fedora. They don't promote non OSS > > software for partly legal and (in my opinion, might be wrong) partly > > philosophical reasons against closed source. > > My point has nothing to do with promoting anything or whether the > additional software meets your religious beliefs or not. It is strictly > about providing a user with a platform that is not limited by design or > its inability to provide stable interfaces. You say limit by design, I say do not support. Limit by design would be to hard code repos into yum. Not support would be to not provide all repos in yum by default. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )