https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77007
And yes, this really is worse than Lindows. That's providing (well, attempting to) basic computer users with a more stable version of a simple computer.
A quick translation for the non-compu-nerds:
Pretend Red Hat is a cutler selling, among other things, Swiss Army knives. The knives have a basic blade, and a lot of other fold-out toys, some of which are blade-like.
The Swiss Army people think that regular knives are swell, but that it's kind of nice to have some other stuff around.
Plenty of people still just only buy a good, old pen knife because it's what they wanted and they know that it will do exactly what they want it to do, but when in a situation where the only thing on the shelf is a Swiss Army knife and they need a new knife, they'll buy the Swiss Army knife and just not use the other stuff.
But then there are some other people that complain that, when they buy a Swiss Army knife, they're remarkably unimpressed with the plain old knife. That the interesting part is the corkscrew, hand-drill, miniature saw, and nail file, and that the knife really works better with all this stuff unfolded at the same time. How, they ask, could you possibly ever just use a pen knife after seeing how swell the Swiss Army knife is?
Well, by marking this bug “WONTFIX”, Red Hat is saying, “We're breaking all the regular knife blades off of the Swiss Army knives on our shelves so that we stop getting complaints about how boring the regular knife blades are.”
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