Thilo Six wrote: >> If you give blank CD RWs with Ubuntu branding away some bad guy(tm) >> could put bad stuff on it and spread that. (That way the gpg chain >> is broken that took soo long to put up on mirrors.) That would be >> bad publicity for Ubuntu/Canonical. > i remember McDonalds had given away 10k mp3 (Sony) players with 10 or > 12 songs on it in Japan for free. That players also had an Win trojan > on bord.
Yes but that trojan came *with* the mp3 player [as a feature, like other Sony features] :) If we keep with this example, Ubuntu should come with a Windows or a Linux virus out of the box ;) Note: i think providing the shipit CDs as CD-RWs is a good idea but it would be more expensive (drain resources much faster) and many people who get those CD-RWs wouldn't know that they are rewritable (we rarely read tfa, let alone the CD cover and stuff). So it is great theoretically, but unfortunately not practical for now. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
