[Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

Mon Nov 28 16:49:18 CET 2011

Le lundi 28 novembre 2011 à 15:10 +0100, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+> Am 28.11.2011 14:55, schrieb Guillaume Rousse:
+> > Le 28/11/2011 11:45, Robert Fox a écrit :
+> >> There a few "key" proprietary softwares which make the Linux work a bit
+> >> easier to integrate and play nice with the others . . . Like Skype,
+> >> Picasa&  Teamviewer (to name a few).  Other distros get this (like Linux
+> >> Mint!):
+> >>
+> >> http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/04/how-to-install-teamviewer-on-linux-mint-and-connect-to-windows/
+> >>
+> > Why not switch to linux mint then, if you feel it better suited for your need ?
+> >
+> > I'm more and more concerned about this whole attitude: "you guys should make
+> > my own life easier, because other already do it". That's just plain consumerism.
+> >
+> Uhmm, converse argument would that you want to make your life
+> (and also that of other distribution users) harder because you don't
+> want to be that consumer-like? Doesn't sound that reasonable to me,
+> and please remember, it's not always plain black vs. white decisions.
+> 
+> I can live without a get-teamviewer package, but just because of the facts
+> that i'm able to install/troubleshoot it without help, because i know
+> the tools to do this (rpm/urpmi) and doing that for a long time.
+> 
+> In the end the question should be: Do we want to make the distribution
+> just for ourselves, just for the sake of having "our own" linux distro,
+> or do we want also some other people to use it, who aren't IT
+> specialists, programmers or rocket scientists?
+
+That's a false dichotomy. 
+Have you seen the price of teamviewer ? 
+If you didn't, just check :
+
+http://www.teamviewer.com/en/licensing/index.aspx 
+
+So if a company can give this amount of money to use teamviewer, I think
+they can also spend a little to have a sysadmin able to install it.
+
+For the others people ( ie those covered by "private use" ), that's a
+tool for advanced users. Since teamviewer is likely used for remote
+assistance, at least one of the participant is knowledgeable in IT.
+
+And so the so-called "advanced users" should surely be able to download
+a tarball and run the only executable in the tarball to start it.
+
+That's not harder than doing the same on windows, and people are
+perfectly able to do it.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+