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

[niackho]

I think I found a bug :
" We’ll continue to compete in the browser world, and we’ll continue to do well. We’ll continue to produce a product that people choose, and trust and understand is theirs. We’ll continue to do this as part of our overall mission — building an Internet where individual, civic and social value are paramount." Mitchell Baker
This was posted onTuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 there :
http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/09/02/mozilla-firefox-and-google-chrome/

By enforcing the EULA presence in Ubuntu, I feel that this software is
no more ours, since they force upon us something that we don't want.

The trademarks and copyrights are already there in firefox's menu at "help -> about Mozilla Firefox" !
There is no need for an EULA.

And I must had something from http://standblog.org/blog/post/2006/02/28/93114681-firefox-les-standards-et-l-avenir-du-web-l-independance-du-projet-mozilla-5-5
"On le voit, si la direction de Mozilla venait à faire défaut, le fork ne tarderait pas, d'autant qu'il existe déjà des compétences - en dehors de Mozilla Corp. - capables de prendre le code et de porter le projet, ce qui une indéniable garantie de pérennité pour le logiciel, et qui tient à sa nature Libre. Faut-il rappeler que pendant les cinq ans où le navigateur dominant et propriétaire a été laissé en jachère, il n'y avait aucun recours? A ce titre, le code de Firefox est infiniment plus pérenne que les navigateurs propriétaires, et la Mozilla Corporation sait qu'elle se doit de continuer dans la droite ligne de sa mission : "promouvoir le choix et l'innovation sur Internet", faute de quoi elle verrait la communauté la sanctionner en quittant le navire." 28 février 2006, 02:25, Tristan Nitot.

It is in french but this roughly says that if Mozilla makes something
wrong, the community will/must leave the boat.

I hope that Mr Shuttlework will make the right decision if Mozilla
doesn't recognize their error : put firefox out of  'main', replace it
by Iceweasel/epiphany.

(sorry for my english)

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