[Liverpool] Iceweasel

Bob Ham rah at bash.sh
Mon Sep 7 00:50:26 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 19:12 +0100, Andrew Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:07:43PM +0100, Vladimir wrote:
> > i agree. debian's choice with all the respect to iceweasel was stupid.
> > those who use iceweasel could have apt-get installed it easily themselves.
> 
> I understand Debian's trademark issues in that only Mozilla Foundation authed
> versions can carry the Firefox brand, this is extremely restrictive in terms
> of bugfixes which Debian highly prize as one of their winning features.
> 
> Debian's reaction is over the top

I'm a little unclear as to how they could have reacted differently; they
don't seem to have had much of a choice.  What could they have done
instead of removing Mozilla's branding?

-- 
Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>

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