Le lundi 28 novembre 2011 à 15:10 +0100, Florian Hubold a écrit : > Am 28.11.2011 14:55, schrieb Guillaume Rousse: > > Le 28/11/2011 11:45, Robert Fox a écrit : > >> There a few "key" proprietary softwares which make the Linux work a bit > >> easier to integrate and play nice with the others . . . Like Skype, > >> Picasa& Teamviewer (to name a few). Other distros get this (like Linux > >> Mint!): > >> > >> http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/04/how-to-install-teamviewer-on-linux-mint-and-connect-to-windows/ > >> > > Why not switch to linux mint then, if you feel it better suited for your > > need ? > > > > I'm more and more concerned about this whole attitude: "you guys should make > > my own life easier, because other already do it". That's just plain > > consumerism. > > > Uhmm, converse argument would that you want to make your life > (and also that of other distribution users) harder because you don't > want to be that consumer-like? Doesn't sound that reasonable to me, > and please remember, it's not always plain black vs. white decisions. > > I can live without a get-teamviewer package, but just because of the facts > that i'm able to install/troubleshoot it without help, because i know > the tools to do this (rpm/urpmi) and doing that for a long time. > > In the end the question should be: Do we want to make the distribution > just for ourselves, just for the sake of having "our own" linux distro, > or do we want also some other people to use it, who aren't IT > specialists, programmers or rocket scientists?
That's a false dichotomy. Have you seen the price of teamviewer ? If you didn't, just check : http://www.teamviewer.com/en/licensing/index.aspx So if a company can give this amount of money to use teamviewer, I think they can also spend a little to have a sysadmin able to install it. For the others people ( ie those covered by "private use" ), that's a tool for advanced users. Since teamviewer is likely used for remote assistance, at least one of the participant is knowledgeable in IT. And so the so-called "advanced users" should surely be able to download a tarball and run the only executable in the tarball to start it. That's not harder than doing the same on windows, and people are perfectly able to do it. -- Michael Scherer
