[Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

[Tom Arnold]

How about two Live-CDs? One with abrowser and one with Firefox?

>From what I can see in MozCorps Bugzilla it seems that they really think this will not hurt their brand in any way.
They are obviously mistaken. Introducing the concept of EULAs to free software isn't an achievement to be proud of.

When you think about it one Ubuntu promise is not really true:
"Ubuntu CDs contain only free software applications; we encourage you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on."
But it was only really true for Gobuntu, so nothing has changed.

Well .. let's see what the Fedora and OpenSuse communities think.  The Fedora people have successfully fought against their own stupid EULA, so it should be interesting.
Arch ,Gentoo and many other distros have shipped unbranded builds of Firefox (they say Bon Echo or now Gran Paradiso in the title) without any problems. 

The Arch package and executable is still called firefox .. nobody really seemed to care a lot. It is not like: 
OMG! Arch has no Firefox(TM)! It must be crap!  

Nobody cares.

People do however care about stupid meaningless contracts in legalese
with allcaps that are presented to them at startup.

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AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP
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