Re: [rtcweb] H.261

[Ron <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:36:59PM -0600, Adam Roach wrote:
> On 11/22/13 18:35, Ron wrote:
> >The whole point of many distros is to supply binaries, often built
> >many times for many different system architectures.
> 
> And the overwhelming majority of these do so by including a list of
> repositories from which the binaries can be downloaded.
> 
> I'm 100% confident that we could convince Cisco to serve up RPMs,
> DPKGs, and whatever else is needed for these distros, targeting
> whatever platforms are required. Now, whether we can get the distro
> maintainers to add a single line to their list of repos -- because
> that's all it would take -- is a different issue. But at that point,
> it's just a matter of the distro maintainers being intransigent
> rather than any real technical or legal barrier.

So, now you want people to give Cisco not only the ability to
install binary blobs on their machine -- but a root shell to do
it as well?  What could possibly go wrong.

I'd laugh but my intransigence gland doesn't appear to be
secreting the necessary humors ...


  Moving along, nothing technical or legal to see here,
  just a mirror, a single line, and a razor blade ...

  Snort,
  Ron