[ttarr]

> as long as you comply with US laws (unfortunately) and the Fedora Code of Conduct.

This is it, I'm not in the US, many aren't either, so why shall I suffer the consequence of such decisions.

Note sure if it's feasible to have a none-US build whilst based in the US.

But for the time being it's over for me, I've been using Fedora for years and recommending it to friends and family, despite the RPM fusion required after initial setup, but not anymore.

Let's see how welcoming Arch is.

[sleepycatgirl]

Yeah.. Fedora was pretty nice, but this... is just silly. I myself ended up going to Arch (Really nice for gaming), then Gentoo, and ultimately settled on NixOS

[gigatexal]

I might, too, as a long time Fedora fan, move to Arch for this. I wish they’d used their IBM/Redhat position and money to fight patent trolls in court with an attitude of: “come at me bro”. And until sued /lost don’t do anything.

[type0]

> money to fight patent trolls in court

It's a shame that they at least don't want transfer the project to a Fedora association in Europe (zapsaný spolek in Brno) and legally insulate it. This just goes to show how much they care about community.

[brnt]

(Why is Arch nice for gaming?)

[sleepycatgirl]

Mainly because of how easy it ks to install steam, mesa-git, and latest kernel. Back when I had Nvidia card, Arch also was least painless when it came to the drivers for some reason, alongside gentoo. AUR was certainly useful with getting game related stuff that wasn't in repos or so

[ksec]

Broadly speaking it is basically the export of culture and ideology. Sometimes that is a good thing, unfortunately this has recently been shifted way too far to one side.

And if you look carefully, it isn’t just one project either, it is current, predominant, majority, vocal norm in US / Tech / Silicon Valley.

[jacooper]

This affects Europe too. open SUSE did the same thing.

Other distros continued used became they might be too small to sue. https://twitter.com/spotfoss/status/1575885891922690048

[brnt]

Germans are conservative. I wouldnt call them representative of European legal environments.

[jacooper]

To use it*

Mobile keyboards suck.

[donkeybeer]

In what way are US laws a problem? Do you mean subjects like reverse engineering provisions or patent trolls? edit: Okay yes, so its mainly talking about patent trolls. It may be cold comfort but I think it could have been worse, there are much worse countries to be based in.