Comment 84 for bug 269656

Hmm I was initially gong to skip over this due to the inflammatory all caps title but it seems there is a real point within.

Sigh. This is shame as I came across just this issue when installing openSUSE on a lab of machines. At the time I noticed that Ubuntu did not have this EULA and thought it curious that a distro would willingly put this behavior in. It seems to turn users off - they wonder why the provided software is asking unintelligible questions and whether the system was properly set up.

I would like to say that nothing shows up a system as lacking in cohesion by asking a user questions like these before the software is installed (neither IE on Windows nor Safari on OSX act in this fashion). Sadly this is not a precedent - on OSX I believe whenever iTunes is freshly installed it will put an EULA up before it can be first used.

However if it is at all possible let administrators accept these EULAs at install time (but skip upgrades) and spare the users. There is already software that does this (frustrating though it is) at install time but it is far more professional in big mass roll outs. Perhaps a similar alternative would be to check for an administrator created /etc/firefox/accept_firefox_eula_forever . . Can anyone say if these suggestions are even plausible?