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- subgeniusd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Thanx tuxchick for the link. Informative but as dense as reading Tax Code regulations. For headline scanners like me I wish someone had done this already:
"Eric Dorland has stated that he will be changing the name of the browser soon. Previously, this scenario has been described as the "Iceweasel" approach - but Eric has not said what name he will be using. He has asked if Debian sarge can continue to ship "firefox," or whether the name will have to be changed in the stable distribution; that question has not yet been answered."
"Nobody really wants to fork Firefox. The Mozilla Corporation, however, would appear to be requiring distributors to do exactly that, whether they want to or not. No distributor has any interest in shipping Iceweasel, but it appears that a number of us will be using it anyway - or, perhaps, looking harder at some of the other free browsers out there".
And that is all you need to know for the moment unless you are also a policy wonk that likes to burrow deep into the minutiae of fluid complexity. - angrykeyboarder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I wish I'd seen this sooner (much) sooner. deviceguru did a lousy job of describing the article. The gist of which is that the DFSG are a tad over the top. They are to the detriment of users.
And @ tuxchick.
Debian really irked me with this one. They need to revisit the (anti-)social contract. I love Debian, but I refuse to use Firefox by any other name....
So rather than run Debian and download Firefox from Mozilla, I'll just use what I like to call "Debian as it should be". What is that? It's called "Ubuntu". - tuxchick, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1No diggs! A terrible, uninformed rant. Read http://lwn.net/Articles/200301/
'The return of Iceweasel' to see what is really happening.
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