Carlos E. R. wrote:
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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.
These guys sound like they are at the ages where learning becomes
difficult for some and change becomes even more difficult. It's much
easier to reformat and reinstall because that's what they are accustomed
to. It reminds me of some of my once colleagues who would tell you they
have no problems with Windows when Linux was mentioned and later tell
you of all the problems they experienced with Windows, or as one
colleague told me, he would go into the office and see a guy who seemed
to be really getting stuck into work, only to find when you get near
him, he'd be muttering "It's not supposed to do that", "I thought I had
saved that".
The rest of us just get on and learn whatever is necessary. I bet when
it comes to coping with Vista, they will rise to the occasion simply
because they are forced to and they won't blame Microsoft for anything.
Evolution looks like it will eventually produce computer users with just
enough fingers to operate a mouse and typing will be restricted to
clicking characters on a virtual keyboard.
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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