On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > > |> Nevertheless, I think the Companion CD concept still has merit. There > |> are lots of customers who have a strong desire for any unsupported > |> open-source software they might use to come from the same vendor that > |> they purchased their platform/service contract from. > > I'd word this slightly differently: there is merit in being given the choice > during OS install of "do you want to install freeware as well?". Where > exactly > this freeware comes from, especially for non-Sun distributions, may be up for > debate.
+1. It'd be great for the OS install to present choices of where to get freeware from. (My point was that there will probably always be some people who will want the vendor-blessed freeware.) > Of course many customers want to know this is "blessed" in some way by the > vendor, but another overlapping set of people just want to get it easily > installed. Agree. Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
