Is Ubuntu going to adapt Ice Weasel?

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Tim Schmidt wrote:
>> On 10/18/06, Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> When we consider whether to use this name I think people should know that
>> "weasel" is derogatory. I think this makes us look a little unprofessional.
> This is ridiculous.  A weasel is first and foremost an animal.  If the
> Firefox team had used your logic, they'd never have chosen the name
> for fear of offending attractive people.

fox doesn't have nice connotations either. in the US, it may mean
"attractive woman" [in the form of *sexual harassment*]. in my country,
it means tricky, calculating.

weasel may refer to "devious" (from wikipedia) characters in the US, who
knwos what it means in other countries.

there is no escape from the meanings. a nice enough icon, on the other
hand, would remedy that situation ;)

or a really conscious developer could append this info to the
"help>about" menu:
ice != fire
weasel != fox

which is the origin of the firefork's name.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2006-10/msg00018.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/02/msg00279.html