I am not in any way meaning to be critical of Fedora at all, and in fact spent a fair amount of time the other day furthering this in my personal blog over at http://on-being-open.blogspot.com. Fedora is 100% correct. So is Ubuntu. What I worry about is that while Fedora is being 100% right they are also ceding mind and market share to Ubuntu when it would not be hard for them to do a similiar thing as Ubuntu.
I sort of think of the Ubuntu "Restricted Source Manager" as a "Red Letter": Notice to people that not everyone is playing 100% openly. Those who do not care now will either come to care later as they learn more about what Open Source is all about, or they will never care, and no harm has been done!
Open Source hardware is another topic about which I am interested: There is the Linux BIOS project of course, and I can not wait to try that out when the time comes. But there is also Sun's Open Sourceing UltraSparc and Niagara. It would seem to be full of future potential, and I am watching that space with great interest.
I sort of think of the Ubuntu "Restricted Source Manager" as a "Red Letter": Notice to people that not everyone is playing 100% openly. Those who do not care now will either come to care later as they learn more about what Open Source is all about, or they will never care, and no harm has been done!
Open Source hardware is another topic about which I am interested: There is the Linux BIOS project of course, and I can not wait to try that out when the time comes. But there is also Sun's Open Sourceing UltraSparc and Niagara. It would seem to be full of future potential, and I am watching that space with great interest.