Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Blasphemy, I say!  Burn them at the stake!  All rally to the one, pure Linux!

 

cough, cough.

--- On Tue, 4/22/08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 4:38 PM

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:29 -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> The only real benefits of Ubuntu are proprietary drivers by default, and
> easier access to patent encumbered codecs... catering to users so much
> is why Ubuntu is so popular... no other reason.

How dare they offer something that users want :-)

poc

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