Firefox outcome (Re: Is Ubuntu going to adapt Ice Weasel?)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:19:21PM -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:

> 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), it looks that the right outcome has happened, one which
> is good for all parties involved.

As someone who was involved in the negotiations between Mozilla and 
Debian, I think this is a gross mischaracterisation. We made every 
possible effort to come to an agreement that Mozilla and the package 
maintainers were happy with, and failed. That doesn't make me happy, 
but, well.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org