Firefox Alternative

[Avi Greenbury]

Gilles Gravier wrote:
> On 27/06/2011 13:06, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>> Free-as-in-freedom - it's not got a permissive enough license to
>> get into the Ubuntu default install and hence can't be used to
>> displace Firefox there.
>
> Skype isn't "free-as-in-freedom". Yet it's displaced just about
> anything I can think of in terms of voip/videooip application... and
> it did that despite the fact that the default shipping application
> on Windows (MSN Messenger) did all that... Hence Microsoft now
> acquiring Skype, methinks.
>
> So not a real argument...

No, that *is* a real argument. Opera wont displace Firefox or Chrome in
the Ubuntu default install for at least the reason that it is non-free.
Ubuntu policy is to only ship free-as-in-freedom software.

> You may not like its non redistributability, but Opera has its
> followers, You may not like its non redistributability, but Opera
> has its followers, it's very present in the embedded market. In fact,
> every  Nintendo DSi, DSiXL and 3DS has it.

The context here is the default browser on Ubuntu, not personal
preference or default browsers on games consoles. I have my own reasons 
for not using Opera, and I've neither much of an idea nor much concern 
as to who or what is the market leader in web browsers.

> Opera is a VERY nice browser. Just one with a different model. Heck,
>  even Google Chrome (not Chromium) is not open source and
> redistributable completely.

Which is why Chromium is in the default install (well, I think it is,
the point is that it *can* be), while Chrome is not.

-- 
Avi