Dapper installation notes/Stuff that needs fixing

[Marco Cabizza]

Il giorno mer, 15/02/2006 alle 11.16 +0200, Aigars Mahinovs ha scritto:
> On 2/15/06, Santiago Roza <santiago.roza at thymbra.com> wrote:
> > there are no easy solutions, because the legal issue is tricky (and
> > risky).  the ones i can think of are:
> > - including a post-install wizard that downloads and installs all that
> > stuff, if the user claims the same thing as before.
> 
> This solution is as easy as it gets. And the message should rather be:
> "Due to the cripled legal system of USA and Japan which allows
> software patents, we have to ship Ubuntu that is crippled in its media
> playing capabilities. If you do not live in these countries or have in
> other way acquired rights to play media protected by software patents,
> you can download media plugins from our site."
> With a single button - "Uncripple media capabilities"
> 
> The dialog should not take more then a couple of days to do. After
> that the legal responsibility is with the users and Ubuntu can not do
> anything and doesn't have to do anything.
> 
> I suggest that this issue be considered release critical for Dapper.
> 

I TOTALLY agree, as Debian has the non-US CD. I posted something like
that in an Ubuntu forum, and I got punched in the face for strange
reasons :) Anyway, that's a good solution I guess, mostly because it's
legal in 95% countries of planet Earth.

~marco

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