[Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Hmm I was initially gong to skip over this due to the inflammatory all
caps title but it seems there is a real point within.

Sigh. This is shame as I came across just this issue when installing
openSUSE on a lab of machines. At the time I noticed that Ubuntu did not
have this EULA and thought it curious that a distro would willingly put
this behavior in. It seems to turn users off - they wonder why the
provided software is asking unintelligible questions and whether the
system was properly set up.

I would like to say that nothing shows up a system as lacking in
cohesion by asking a user questions like these before the software is
installed (neither IE on Windows nor Safari on OSX act in this fashion).
Sadly this is not a precedent - on OSX I believe whenever iTunes is
freshly installed it will put an EULA up before it can be first used.

However if it is at all possible let administrators accept these EULAs
at install time (but skip upgrades) and spare the users. There is
already software that does this (frustrating though it is) at install
time but it is far more professional in big mass roll outs. Perhaps a
similar alternative would be to check for an administrator created
/etc/firefox/accept_firefox_eula_forever . . Can anyone say if these
suggestions are even plausible?

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AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP
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