On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 15:57 +0800, Gerard Braad wrote:
> > aggressively
> 
> I do not agree this strategy is wise or even the correct way. Certain
> Fedora versions dropped hardware support. We can't dictate people wht
> they can or can not do.

Yes, we can. In fact that's more or less what a distribution *does*. The
function of a distribution is essentially to take away certain decisions
from users in the interests of simplifying their experience. If you want
ultimate choice, you build your system from scratch. Distributions take
away the pain involved in that by doing lots of the work for you, which
inevitably involves making choices about how those things are done,
which inevitably means removing the ability for the users to choose how
those things are done, which is indeed 'dictat[ing] what they can or can
not do'. That's our entire function.
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