I understand both sides of the coin but I agree with Alex. Also;
[And since most professionals are adults and know that world is filled
with all sorts of things that _you_ may not like but that others may[...]]
This works both ways, Fedora is a project meant to encourage creativity
and contribution. It makes no claims to being "The Safest Linux for Your
Kids!", "Squeamish? Worry not dear fellow, we strive daily to insure
that you and your family are completely insolated from the peckidillos
and quirks of others!"
"We either accept all freedom for all people, or we accept no freedom
for anyone. The happy medium is an illusion."
Of course, Fedora is RH's project, and it is steered by a committee, so
we must abide by their decsions, but I don't see even mildly-moderately
offensive screensavers being a huge issue in an Open Source, community
driven project where creative innovation is desired. Let's try to keep a
light heart!
-ishikawa
Alex Catullo wrote:
Professionalism in linux is definitely a nice thing, but if you want
it, go out and get a copy of enterprise Linux. In Fedora, it's all
about the bleeding edge technology and newest ideas from the
community, and being "professional" limits that quite a bit. At least
in fedora ther'es the freedom for the creative things like the
"unprofessional" barcode and flying toasters screensavers. That's what
it's all about, the freedom to add any ideas; and that's why Fedora
isn't "professional"
"I was rather disappointed with the content in the "WebCollage" and
"Barcode" screensavers. These screensavers have since been manually
removed from my system, but I would have preferred them not to be
installed by default. When I install Mac OS or Windows, garbage like
this is not included. Why?"
Because this is Linux. Linux is meant to be that quirky OS that
releives the boredom of stock operating systems like windows. If you
want to be professional, use RHEL. But in Fedora, we strive to endorse
new ideas, regardless of their "professionality"
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:08:39 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
<kyrre(a)solution-forge.net> wrote: