No, but I would find the freeLion Recovery Disk Assistant an acceptable alternative. Make as many install discs and/or USB installers as you want.
Am I missing something here? Lion Recovery Disk Assistant allows you to make and boot from a Lion Recovery Disk on an external drive, but you'll still need to download several gigabytes of data to reinstall Lion while so booted. The whole point of the "unacceptable" $69 USB drive is that someone in grelber's shoes would be able to reinstall Lion without broadband (or indeed, any) internet access.
dkmarsh—member, FineTunedMac Co-op Board of Directors
