Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Jonathan Roberts
On 03/06/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 22:47 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote: > On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The article comes from here. > > > > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 > > > > "Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," releas

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Thomas Chung
On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The article comes from here. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 "Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," released on May 31, is an odd duck. On the one hand, it's hugely popular. If you need to be convinced of that, take a look at the number of

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Jonathan Roberts
On 03/06/07, Thomas Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The article comes from here. > > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 > > "Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," released on May 31, is an odd duck. On > the one hand, it's hugely popular. If

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread John Babich
Just my two cents' worth ($0.02): There will always be people who will not like Fedora's position on leaving the encumbered bits out of the distribution. To quote from the article: "Much of this can arguably be laid to rest at the feet of Fedora's decision to stay completely within the bounds o

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 03 juin 2007 à 14:06 +0300, John Babich a écrit : > Just my two cents' worth ($0.02): > > There will always be people who will not like Fedora's position on leaving > the encumbered bits out of the distribution. However we could spin it a lot better. "Fedora does not propose proprieta

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Bryan J. Smith
On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 13:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > However we could spin it a lot better. "Fedora does not propose > proprietary software it can't provide user support for" or "Fedora > protects its users from lawsuits" sounds a lots better than "Red Hat > does not want to be sued" or "Fed

The NTFS specifics -- WAS: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Bryan J. Smith
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 23:38 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > In the second Big Point Against Fedora is this (mis)statement: > "Fedora doesn't even include support for read-only access to NTFS > partitions." > Uh, I thought we had that one resolved and did offer ro access to NTFS? > Certainly put it int

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Jonathan Roberts wrote: On 03/06/07, Thomas Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The article comes from here. > > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 > > "Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," released on May 31, is an odd duck. On > the one hand,

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Bryan J Smith
The additional aspect that should be added is the fact that those who redistribute Fedora or otherwise bundle it also benefit from that added indemnification consideration, which is a very significant aspect. -- Bryan J Smith - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs413.blogspot.com Sent via B

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 03 juin 2007 à 10:19 -0400, Bryan J. Smith a écrit : > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 13:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > However we could spin it a lot better. "Fedora does not propose > > proprietary software it can't provide user support for" or "Fedora > > protects its users from lawsuit

Re: rotating banners, first idea

2007-06-03 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Karsten Wade wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 08:16 +, Karlie Robinson wrote: >> We've started gathering the how-to info at http://Respins.org > > Would you like to join in the effort upstream? [...] +1, really Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketin

Re: rotating banners, first idea

2007-06-03 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: > Here's one concept for that promo: > > http://linuxgrrl.com/misc/spin-promo.png > Ohw do I like this one! I had a good laugh when I first saw it and I'm liking it more and more each time I show it to anyone. How about a variant based on really pimping the distro? Jeroen

Re: Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Bryan J Smith
I disagree. In fact, home users are far more picky than business users. You can have 2 different statements that are mutually exclusive appeal to different home users whereas businesses tend to focus on the same. -- Bryan J Smith - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs413.blogspot.com Sent v