Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Bryen <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 16:39 +0200, Michael Loeffler wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2008, Martin Lasarsch wrote:
> > On Friday 26 September 2008 16:09:58 Michael Loeffler wrote:
> > > Here is our proposal for new discussion.
> > >
> > > *Ship any media of openSUSE with open source software and
> proprietary
> > > software which allows redistribution (eg. firmware), for details
> [3].
> > > *Add during installation automatically an online repo with the
> non-OSS
> > > stuff and install per default flashplayer (5MB) and the fluendo
> plug-in
> > > (210K) for mp3.
> >
> > I generally like the proposal. But actually i would like to have a
> pop-up
> > that "warns" the user before adding the non-OSS repo and installing
> the
> > software. Some people might want to have a "clean" system, with a
> pop-up
> > you can easily have that. I agree that many people don't care about
> the
> > license, but some do.
> Fully agreed. There needs to be an easy way not to install software
> you might 
> not like. The expression "automatically" is missleading.
> M

I think a pop-up would be a good way to satisfy the "purists" if you
will, and might even help to further educate the public about OSS and
NON-OSS.  I'm sure we all agree there's still too many people who don't
understand the issue of proprietary software and take its functionality
for granted.

I would encourage that if popups are to be used, we carefully go over
the wording to make sure it is informative but doesn't cause an alarmist
reaction by new users.  Example, don't start the text off with
"WARNING!"  :-)

Just my two cents.
-- 
Bryen Yunashko
Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board

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