On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 03:17:15PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > 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.
"no matter how" isn't good enough, sorry. I'm not going to compromise my legal rights, and my morals for such an argument. And I would certianly hope that no one else would either. That's just sad. And a company can not just ignore the legal aspects of the world either, no matter how "inconvient" it might be, that's insane. greg k-h --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
