Firefox Dilemma

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:33 -0500, Derek Slovin wrote:
> Vince,
> By that logic, why are we not pushing Thunderbird for email instead of Evolution?

Compare the respective market shares of Thunderbird and Firefox on
Windows ...

> Or Azerus for bittorrent?

Because Azureus is a difficult monster app, while gnome-bt is simple.
Totally different target users.

> The list could go on...

Such as?


> This brings up the point, is Ubuntu here to create a great operating system or is

> it here to switch over users from Windows?

See bug #1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1


> IMHO, Ubuntu should include the best package for the job, not the package

> people are most familiar with. 

As has been said already in the thread, this really has been discussed
to death and the decision was that all things considered, FF is the best
package for the job in the Ubuntu context. You may agree or disagree,
but it is unlikely that any of us will add anything new to the
discussion. Look up the archives