Go to http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/, and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. Any familiar links? On Äet, 2003-06-05 at 17:13, Marco Fioretti wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > > Very cool. One of the tasks I'll be undertaking to make this a marketable > > product, is to script the installation so that all the user has to do when > > they get the unit is double click on an icon or run a script that will > > download all the stuff, build it, install it, and place in the pre-made > > config files. This way my company won't be liable for installing > > questionable software, like mp3 codecs and the like. > > > In other words: > 1) SW foo is illegal/"questionable" under current laws > 2) You sell a box which could use it > 3) You do not install it because of #1, but > 4) You install a script/button which means "I (ACME, Inc) could not install > foo because it's illegal, so *I* (still ACME, Inc) only installed this > illegal-foo-installer applet to make it both easy for you, and not > accountable to > me, the use of illegal SW" > 5) You explain points 1-4 in cour, and they keep a straight face > > Good luck (me giggling, and lawyers giggling even more, while sharpening their > knives) > > The only way you (the HW/SW maker) can hope to stay clear is to ignore at all levels > even the existence of "SW foo", and let THIRD parties, totally UNRELATED to you, > the burden to say around "foo exists, and this is the way to install it". > > Which, by the way, is exactly what Red Hat does: do they place icons to > freshmeat in their > desktop? No. Guess why. > > Ciao, > Marco Fioretti -- Igor Nestorovic University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics http://jung.ekof.bg.ac.yu ICQ# 31079000
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