Valent Turkovic wrote:
It was hard for me to write this proposal. Very hard. Because it forces change, and change is never welcomed. Because it's bold, and boldness tends to attract enmity. Because it's probably going to be ignored. And because it may add more complexity to an issue that is already complex. Also keep in mind that English is not my mother tongue.
No. Because it is not constructive and it does not say anything new that was not already said and countered.
But in the end, I thought this issue was important, and here we are.
From what I've heard, whole flame wars regarding multimedia and
average user desktop experience have happened before, and they led to nothing. Why not end this issue once and for all, and go on with more important matters?
A lot of things happened. For example with Fedora 7 is very easy for someone living in the "free world" to create a derivative spin and put in it whatever multimedia applications he want and redistribute it (probably under a different name), even as a LiveCD.