-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-02 at 22:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:31:22PM -0300, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
Users unfortunately does not care a shit about the legal or ethical points on this, if SUSE does not have a quick and **extremely easy** way to do this, they will simple switch to a distribution that is including the drivers or providing a simple tool to install them. or will go back to windows.
for me, and probably to every member of this list, installing the binary driver aint a problem, but to the userbase this is a very seriuos showstopper.
Well, if we tell people _why_ we don't include it, explaining the legal and ethical issues surrounding it, that's the best we can do. If they want to switch to something else for such a stance, I'm not going to feel bad.
In short, don't break the law just to appease some people who want you to do so.
I have friends that want to try linux, and they do, sometimes. They want everything to work by click click. If something needs to be installed, it's got to be with the mouse, windows install style. They don't care about licenses. I have tried to explain why, for instance, multimedia does not work: useless. Blah, blah, blah. They just want it to work, no matter how. They don't even read the license, they just ckick enter, yes, or whatever button needs to be pressed to continue. Even if they paused to glance at it for a moment, when they see it is in English, they move on, because they can't read it. And if it doesn't work, perhaps they blame me (or you) and reformat, and reinstall. Perhaps you don't care much about those users, but if you want to make linux have a greater share, you should. You don't need to convince me. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFTKDxtTMYHG2NR9URAhdiAJ9jO9oUysXFecSInKFKZte4b6eldQCffXcw A7SZmqkD9e0myb7JkRD7/GE= =RIGS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org