Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2007 12:18 AM
I think you got that kind of wrong with the whole firefox/iceweasel story: I don't think that there was even the option of just putting firefox into non-free (which btw in my opinion would have been a very bad choice anyway), as the guys from firefox wouldn't allow redistribution of the patched version of firefox at all.
I can see that you might have had other issues with Debian, but I can't understand what your problem with iceweasel is. It behaves exactly like firefox (actually, it is almost exactly like firefox, besides a few bugfixes maybe), it just has a different name. I don't understand why a name-change would be an issue as long as you'd be able to find the program with the new name, which I believe shouldn't have been a problem in your case anyway.
That said, I have some problems with Debian myself, but I think the day Debian gives up its free software guidelines will be the day when I switch to something else. I hope that day will never come though...
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Re:I want Debian to live, but...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2007 12:18 AMI can see that you might have had other issues with Debian, but I can't understand what your problem with iceweasel is. It behaves exactly like firefox (actually, it is almost exactly like firefox, besides a few bugfixes maybe), it just has a different name. I don't understand why a name-change would be an issue as long as you'd be able to find the program with the new name, which I believe shouldn't have been a problem in your case anyway.
That said, I have some problems with Debian myself, but I think the day Debian gives up its free software guidelines will be the day when I switch to something else. I hope that day will never come though...
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