Easy Fedora 2

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 23:13:53 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 17:51 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 00:45 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:02 -0500, jam at zoidtechnologies.com wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:44:58PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > On Friday 01 December 2006 15:40, Frank S. wrote:
> > > > > like an extra cd with all the warnings.
> > > > 
> > > > Because often times that is illegal.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > a valid point-- however users want these things and if it's "too difficult"
> > > to get them installed and operational they will go elsewhere. like the
> > > original poster, I applaud the idea of sticking to the guns and not shipping
> > > any "grey" content, but that does *not* solve the problem for the vast
> > > majority of potential fedora users, and the matter needs to be addressed
> > > rather soon if we want to have a serious set of desktop users.
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > J
> > > 
> > 
> > Addressed how?
> > IANAL, but AFAIK any attempt to make gray content distribution easier
> > (E.g. Press here to download illegal X) makes you an accomplice in the
> > distribution of illegal content X.
> > 
> "lobby-buddy" - a helper app similar to "bug-buddy", but tries to detect
> what country and electoral region you're in, what the legal issue is,
> and lets you easily generate a letter to the appropriate elected
> representative?

Sound's like a great idea.
<Sarcasm>
(Unless you live in say, China (or Cuba)... I'd guess that sending such
a letter in there might get into the organ donor list... -fast-) *
</Sarcasm>

- Gilboa
* Just a joke.
Stupid one.
Don't know what got over me.
Please don't kill me.
Thanks.
/me start singing the national Chinese  anthem.




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