can i ask something regarding debian?

[Liam Proven]

On 27 October 2011 21:14, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 04:14 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:00:27PM -0400, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>>    Debian is politically committed not to have anything even remotely
>>>    connected to something proprietary, or developed by any entity that
>>>    might have connections to something commercial.
>>
>> This is an exaggeration of Debian's position to the point of
>> misrepresentation; Debian is certainly committed to free software, but
>> that doesn't exclude commercial involvement.  Let's keep it accurate!
>>
> Oh, yeah?  Let's see you get Thunderbird or Firefox on Debian.

You certainly can. The standard Debian builds are de-branded, because
the Mozilla organization's terms of use for the icons, artwork and
name do not comply with the Debian Free Software guidelines, so you
get the same apps but called "Iceweasel" and "Icedove". (Seamonkey is
"Iceape".)

But you can either install the Mozilla builds, or get them from
alternative repositories - I've done it, it's not hard.

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