Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:09:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: bob@buckhorn.net (Bob Martin), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About introducing newbies to FreeBSD Message-ID: <200011022209.PAA19487@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <25170.973194470@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from "Jordan Hubbard" at Nov 02, 2000 11:47:50 AM
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> question always boiling down to "Who the heck is going to write this > thing then?" > > That's generally where the discussion stops. Every man and his dog > can describe an installer which follows in the footsteps of Windows, > Solaris or even OS X now that we have its installer to look at since > imitation is a pretty straight-forward design challenge. As I first > said back in 1993, "who will step up to the plate and create this > alternative installer so that we can evaluate its merits and possibly > even make it the default?" I'm still waiting for an answer to that > question, 7 years later. :-) Maybe if there were money in it. I mentioned before that I knew someone was willing to do it with a "soft updates"-like license, where they got to make the money off it for a year after first release, then it would fall out into Open Source, and could be used by Walnut Creek, but they'd have to be able to market the CDROMs as something like "WhiteHat FreeBSD". Did I mention that I know the guy who put the "prograss bar" into the Windows InstallShield installer code, used by Windows itself and almost every program distributed for Windows? Not saying these two topics are related, but not saying they aren't, either... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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