Ubuntu 8.10 released but...

Martin Owens doctormo at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 20:50:33 UTC 2008


> Firefox is a special case.  Because of Mozilla Corp's trademark policy 
> Ubuntu cannot ship Firefox and call it Firefox unless Mozilla has approved 
> all the changes in the package.  If you have a problem with Firefox, I 
> think you really need to look upstream.

Doesn't this tie our hands with regards to serving our users? If mozilla
went evil and decided to ignore any bugs not found in the windows
version. What would we do?

Ont he other hand for Mozilla's side, aren't they inviting forks if no
one but Mozilla devs can fix problems?

Regards, Martin





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