-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-09-26 at 22:35 -0500, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: ...
Hypothesis 1: Automatic addition of the non-OSS installation source during the installation.
This technique might, in principle, work. You start the installation process, you are requested if you want to install also proprietary software, and then proceed. However you assume that the user has network access, that the network card is recognised and doesn't require particular configuration (there is no tool to do that in the installer, at least not easily), if the system is a laptop, you also probably assume the user is using an open wireless network. If your user respects these requirements, you're not done, because you have to hope that the re-director works, and our past experience shows exactly the opposite, especially close to release, when the load is high. Result: you make more users unhappy than those you can attract removing some lines from an EULA read by just a few people.
Hypothesis 2: Additional non-OSS medium.
It would not be downloaded by anyone, mainly because you don't really need it. If you can download an additional CD, you just use the network to install your packages.
The additional CD is a "lesser" evil, as it helps those people that know that they will have problems getting things from Internet at install time. You are not forced to download and use the CD, it is just another option. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjeLgoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XGyQCghhYy0eWEIR65epHjpQNypcBz 7ooAoIq3xUsHIeC2nrktqrhMpRcky1zA =rRGe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org