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Open Source Madness! (Firefox "forked")
DesktopLinux.com ^ | Oct. 09, 2006 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Posted on 10/09/2006 7:47:29 PM PDT by Golden Eagle

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At the moment, I'm ticked off because the Debian community's recent hissy-fit over the Mozilla Corp.'s trademarked Firefox logo has led them, and others, to forking the Firefox code to avoid the use of the logo.

Gnutella, part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project, is creating "the 'GNU/Linux' version of same, to be dubbed 'IceWeasel.'" This may, or may not, become the logo-free version of Firefox that Debian will ship in its next distribution.

Regardless of how this turns out, the Firefox "bug" has been removed from Debian.

What are these people thinking!

It will mean more work for programmers. It will mean more work for Firefox, or should I say IceWeasel, extension developers. It will be what all forks are: a major pain for both users and developers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: firefox; linux; opensource
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To: DesScorp
Debian org's handling of this whole thing has been rediculous. And what 13 year old came up with "IceWeasel"?

Stallman's people, glad you're starting to see through it, so are many others. There are other *nixes that have little interaction with those fruits, good luck finding one you like.

121 posted on 10/12/2006 1:59:30 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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