On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 08:18 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I do recognize there are plenty of open source people out there > working to offer alternative choices, and I support them too. I made a > choice to use Fedora outside of my work place. But in making that > choice I also decided to be practical and understand there are times > when I may have to use non-free solutions. One wonders if these same zealots stick to their guns about not buying closed stuff when they buy their motherboards... There's more than just NVidia that's a magic black box in the computer. Yes, I'd like to be totally free, but I've got Buckley's chance. I'm not going to trash a $1200 laptop just to change chipsets. I still need to be able to do naughty things like play MP3s, even though I'd prefer ogg vorbis files (oggs sound better, too), but sometimes an MP3 is all you're going to get. And the list goes on... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
