Comment 387 for bug 269656

FredBezies:

I understand your sentiments. Seeing this many knee-jerk reactions in here is disheartening, at best. You said you have unsubscribed to this bug report, so you may not see this, but when you said you would recommend people to NOT use Ubuntu due to this controversy, I think that also makes you a zealot. Just put things in perspective.

Anyway, I hope all sides involved can approach this in a calm and logical manner. Of course, I have my own opinions, but I have expressed them in a post somewhere up there. I think that's all I need to say about the EULA. I think the more important problem now is all the knee-jerk reactions. If there's any "bug" here, it's our collective handling of the issue.

Remember, when children misbehave and justify their actions by saying, "BUT S/HE DID IT, TOO!" we correct the, and tell them that is not a valid justification. I see a lot of that going on in here. We (as a whole) should not act like children.

My apologies to any children (meaning by age or if you consider yourself a child) who are actually participating, of course. It goes without saying that I am using the words "child" and "children" as a classifier, with no negative connotations.

Now, regarding the user experience. I like Fedora/Red Hat's solution to the issue, but we could improve it slightly. I noticed how that solution said if you did not want to use the anti-phishing features, you could disable them by going into the preferences. Rather than that, we could have some page saying welcome, then giving a link to the terms for the services, then saying if you do not agree, click this button. Clicking the button will disable the anti-phishing features, as opposed to making the user go to the preferences and unchecking some boxes.