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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.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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