-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Mitchell wrote:
Typically MS tools are well packaged and even if there is a click through license, it usually involves checking a box and clicking next. I can't believe that anyone is going to have any difficulty installing Visual Studio express.
I would have some difficulty, because I would feel obliged to read the license first and decide whether it felt acceptable for me to agree to. That's the same reason I haven't started up iTunes on my MacBook - reading the general Apple-software license was tiring enough! This is one place GNU/Linux/(other Free systems) really shine, even compared to OS X: you don't have to explicitly accept a click-through license the first time you start everything up (iterated for every new installation and computer, and they don't tell you whether it's the same version of the license that you read earlier). (Copyright doesn't require you to click to agree; I've already read the GPL and a few other Free licenses; and I trust the FSF's judgment in what freedoms the other miscellaneous Free licenses grant.) But I guess that doesn't matter to "most" Windows users... even if they're developers of FOSS ... ? Isaac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeUihHgcxvIWYTTURAiSmAJ4yy6SinJgfUKARozwcYuxvSoUgdwCgpZD9 JFI0TddUPvYjGogtgjQnVM8= =FInN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----