Posted December 31, 2014
shmerl: Pay attention please. Using another setup program is not an artificial restriction. It's just a choice of method.
So basically using a different program that would have made it impossible to extract the installer content without installing it would have been better than the current solution as it wouldn't have been "DRM" by your definition ? shmerl: Using password on the RAR here is not a choice of method. It's a completely artificial addition which doesn't serve any purpose besides intentionally restricting the user. That's the definition of DRM.
That's where we disagree, that's a technical decision, the fact that it "restrict" some user using the installer in some unconventional way is merely a side effect, a side effect they didn't consider simply because the "unconventional" way in question is not officially supported. shmerl: That's not a solution. It just making this a bit less annoying. Fixing it means removing that nonsensical password and using other methods to address Gowor's concerns.
Why is it not a solution ? it would allow Linux users to extract the files without needing Windows. That's not a good example, a good example would be if it was a soil road meant but be used only by cross bikes and you were here complaining to the mayor that because of the holes in it you can no longer drive on it with your non 4x4 city car... event thought the road in question was never mean to be used by cars but only by bikes.
Post edited December 31, 2014 by Gersen