Re: [Fwd: Re: packages license]

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 00:49, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> > I'm willing to install non-free stuff, but I'd (obviously) prefer to
> > restrict it to as little as possible. I'm happy to have a 90% free
> > software product on 100 desktops rather than a 100% free software on 90
> > desktops.
> 
> I agree with Seth here. Lets make the user experience as good as
> possible, choosing free software when possible. For example the MS core
> fonts, those are very nice to have for the user. 
> 
> Same with Java, it would be nice to integrate Java really well in the
> platform so that a user can just download his Java-app and run it
> without all the fuzz. Would be even more nice if Sun decided to make
> Java render through Gtk+ on *nix.

What about the Crossover plugin?  People who browse the web
a lot (and, as Michael Tiemann mentioned, that's most desktop
users) expect to see Quicktime movies and use the MS OFfice
viewers.

	Miles