<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Caroline Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>As I understand the law, if Solution Grove was creating USB sticks for a specific school we could load the adobe flash plugin onto every stick prior to giving them to the students. I think this is the same basic case as a company IT department distributing flash plugins to all the computers in the company.<br>
<br>On the other hand, Sugar Labs can not install the flash plugin into the SoaS we offer for download on the <a href="http://sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugarlabs.org</a> website.<br><br>My first question is about the grey area.<br>
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If we are burning sticks and giving them out at a conference (such as FOSSVT) can we have the flash plugin pre-installed?<br></blockquote><div><br>IANAL, and this is something that SG might want to see one about, but per <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/players/fpsh_distribution1.html">http://www.adobe.com/products/players/fpsh_distribution1.html</a> :<br>
<br>Licensee is permitted to distribute Adobe Web Players to multiple
end-users by including the Player installers on CDs, DVDs or other
physical media.<br></div><div><br>Meaning you can include the installers, but cannot preinstall them. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What are our different options for improving the user experience when a user browses to a YouTube video on Browse on a SoaS image?<br>
</blockquote><div><br><ol><li>Do nothing and let the user fend for herself. This is the current option.</li><li>Partner with them as David suggested.<br></li><li>Bring up a window explaining the various alternatives and letting the user choose whether to install free/nonfree plugins. We also would need to give a management console so the user could reverse/undo their choices. <br>
</li><li>Do the same as 2 but only offer Adobe's version. We can make this so that it's literally a "yes, please download and install it" and a "accept this EULA" (which ironically is not binding on our subjects) button. <br>
</li><li>Finally, we could ship the sticks with a script which downloads or installs Adobe's plugin the first time it is connected to the internet without any user intervention. <br clear="all"></li></ol></div></div>
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-- <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc">http://luke.faraone.cc</a><br>