Firefox outcome (Re: Is Ubuntu going to adapt Ice Weasel?)
Evandro Fernandes Giovanini
efgiovanini at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 00:59:25 BST 2006
Em Seg, 2006-10-23 às 14:19 -0400, Michael V. De Palatis escreveu:
> On 10/23/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > After a discussion with Mozilla representatives, which took some time due to
> > both of us being busy with major new releases, we're making good progress
> > toward an arrangement where we will maintain the Firefox brand and work
> > closely with upstream to ensure that we're both happy with how Firefox is
> > represented in Ubuntu.
> >
> > As a preliminary step, we've incorporated branding changes and some bug
> > fixes into the final firefox builds for Edgy which were agreed with Mozilla.
>
> I think I speak for a lot of users when I say thank you for taking the
> right approach to this. Yes, I was one of the people incredibly upset
> with Mozilla for their approach, but by engaging them, rather than
> simply saying a big "screw you" (as the Debian team ultimately did,
> essentially),
I think it's more fair to say that what the Debian team ultimately did
was say "we won't ship the Firefox logo because we'd like to follow the
DFSG instead".
Cheers,
Evandro
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