> > > I have been wondering whether the Outlook autorun feature > > could conveniently be used to assist Windows users who would > > like to use FlightGear. They sign up for the mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual and their > > start of subscription mail message has a PIF attachment > > that autoinstalls FlightGear. Thereafter, whenever we > > have a version upgrade, the announcement is copied to that > > mailing list ... together with a PIF autorun attachment > > that will apply the upgrade without user intervention. > > This is a good idea, but I think that we can take it a little further. > What if the PIF attachment automatically uninstalled MSFS and > installed FGFS in its place? Curt would need to upgrade his server to > handle the load, of course, but then we could start sending out the > attachment even to people who do not currently use FlightGear, just to > ease their transition to Open Source. > > We should get in touch with Linus and Alan -- they could use this > technique to get Linux better established on the desktop as well.
I don't know which is worse waste of bandwith Worms and/or virii on Windows, Trolls % move thread /dev/nul Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
