On 9/11/07, Rodd Clarkson rodd@clarkson.id.au wrote:
The installer asks you to locate your time-zone. Couldn't you use this as a trigger for including the US patent encumbered stuff for non US citizens.
I'm pretty sure it would be just as inappropriate for me, as a US citizen, to be in a US embassy in Spain as it would be for me to be in Seattle.
-jef"Clearly the solution is to start supporting US passport swiping technology at install time, so that each US citizen can 'register' with the US government their intent to perform a Fedora install, and the US government can tell the installer exactly what that US citizen is allowed to install, based on their personalized US government profile. Registered republicans would be unable to install 'gimp', registered Democrats would be unable to install 'gnucash', and Libertarians would be forced to install a government approved keylogger"spaleta