-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-09-27 at 18:04 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2008 05:18:24 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2008-09-28 at 00:08 +0200, Michael Loeffler wrote:
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The "Adobe" family does not allow redistribution. For acroread there are eqivalent open source vesions available.
The open source versions have incomplete functionality, unfortunately. Filling forms, for instance, is missing. Some files display incorrectly.
Sincerely, I needed commercial Reader once in a few years, and that was filling forms feature. If there is many like me (question for next poll?) than Reader can be downloaded.
Depends... here (Spain), our government is using acrobat forms to fill up some taxes and documents. So it will depend on your line of work whether adobe reader is necessary. Just an example.
But I'm wonder - we all want to support open source software, but if it comes to the point of convencience too many say we need to have this proprietary stuff.
Right. Do you want to serve best those wanting pure oss, or those wanting convenience? Is serving both possible?
It is possible. Just setup selection window similar to desktop selection and ask user:
x complete system including few free commercial programs with different license terms than opensource
- pure oss system
If you don't understand what is pure oss system than you probably don't need it. Leave default.
Yes, but the problem now is not installing a pure oss system (that's easy), but distributing a pure oss dvd or not. My variation on the original proposal is having a pure oss dvd, plus both an online non-oss repo and a non-oss disk (CD, perhaps). Mirrors having problems with non oss stuff do not need to mirror those, so problem solved for all, IMO. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjev1sACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WSoACgjISgWGRdbVtJBMmrVtR28vbw zvMAn36SOq2FZmwLd/N/sz7ash39lxVo =Tdrb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org