bundling thoughts

[Sean]

It is bundling in the strictest definition. Granted I don't see
multi-million agreements being made to get first priority in the default
install. =) But they are including 3rd party software. They may in fact,
NOT include commercial demo's on their cd, I _thought_ this was their
policy but I could be wrong, which would be the same thing. IE we will
only put it on IF you comply with the GNU/BSD/etc approved license.


On 14 Aug 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com writes:
>
> > Allow me to play devil's advocate here, for a moment.  Other than some
> > embedded OS's, "bundling" is a standard practice, especially among Linux
> > distributions.  The idea that you would have to individually download and
> > install (or, applying this to commercial software, purchase) each utility
> > and application individually in order to make your system usable, let
> > alone robust, is unappetizing at best.
>
> I'm not sure that's a fair statement.  Debian includes as many
> web browsers, for instance, as anyone cares to package.  It's not
> really "bundling" if you include everything available.  (Only a
> certain number will fit on the first CD-ROM, though, of course.)
>