Need A Reason? Here's 5 To Kill The Firefox Fork

Posted by eltower on Wed, 10/11/2006 - 15:37Licensing Issues

http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Reasons_to_Kill_IceWeasel

 Although the Mozilla Foundation may be a bit overzealous at times when
it comes to protecting it's copyrights, the truth is that the GNU's
haste for something to hold on to has the potential to kill one of
FLOSS's biggest successes: Firefox. Here are 5 reasons to creep up
behind the newly born 'rat' and throttle it.

 By the way, Brian McKenna has a fair overview of 5 reasons to _support_ it here: http://brianmckenna.org/blog/linux/5-reasons-to-support-iceweasel/
 


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IceWeasel is funny.
Submitted by rockr on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 00:08.



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Mozilla
Submitted by Frederik Vds on Wed, 10/11/2006 - 20:10.

Mozilla can cooperate to solve the problem:
1. Mozilla adds the two security patches to Firefox
2. Mozilla changes the --enable-official-branding switch, so all unofficial builds use the IceWeasel name and logo (I really like the first one)
3. Maybe, add a note to Help > About saying: "This is IceWeasel, an unofficial Firefox build."

This way, there will always be a completely free Firefox, supplied by Mozilla, with a recognized name and logo (IceWeasel), and an official Firefox, which can be trusted to come directly from Mozilla.

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Yup
Submitted by corevette on Sat, 10/14/2006 - 02:19.

unfortunately on the battle of Mozilla vs. Debian, I'm for Debian just because I'm anti-copyright.  But, I definitely definitely agree that number 2 should be taken into action.

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Actually, I'd like to see what IceWeasel looks like.
Submitted by 3518742690 on Wed, 10/11/2006 - 21:55.

I just downloaded IWl 1.5.0.7. Thanks in reverse!

EDIT: Actaully, the name could be improved. Just nothing like Firefox.

Visit my Top 16 reasons to use Firefox page!

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