<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Alexander Hanff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.hanff@think-privacy.com" target="_blank">a.hanff@think-privacy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Why would it have to occur upstream? </span></p>
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</div></blockquote><div><br>It wouldn't necessarily but making such a change would create a delta that Ubuntu would carry. I really cannot see Ubuntu changing a default search engine provider when it has its own gaps in user privacy such as the Amazon Scope. <br>
<br>I think the better aim is to get upstream to address the matter since then such a change would be global. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There is nothing that I can see which would prevent Ubuntu from doing a custom build of Firefox to include a different default – isn’t Ubuntu Firefox already branched from the official Mozilla tree due to licensing iirc (been a while but I think this certainly used to be the case).</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Ubuntu has its own branches of all the packages it maintains in the repos but specifically the reason we do not sync from Debian is because Debian does not offer Firefox due to their own licensing issues. Ubuntu's Firefox builds are for the most part vanilla aside from the Unity add-ons that get baked in.<br>
<br>But this only addresses one browser... Your proposal is pretty big in scale and would address multiple browsers and cut off Google revenue that keeps many projects alive.<br><br>I'm not saying that the proposal is bad or wrong but that it is a difficult one considering the revenue bit and other issues.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">What barriers exists to prevent this?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I think the better question is what would the proposal solve? <br></div></div>