The Debian folk are now bickering over whether their non-free software archive should exist, or whether folks need to add them by themselves. Joey Hess wrote up his thoughts on why he voted against keeping non-free around.
Which got me thinking. Currently, The Fedora Project has got a set of objectives that promotes the fact that we build the system exclusively from open source software. Then you’d think of using either Fedora Extras or Alternatives right?
But even there, in the terminology it states that we use open source software. As long as we realise that after the mega-merger of all 3rd party RPM sites, sites like Dag’s and even the macromedia sites stay alive. We can preach open source software, but the other archives offering not-so-open source software, must still exist.
So clearly, since Red Hat will host Fedora Extras soon, non-free stuff will have to be in Fedora Alternatives, no?