Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Debian Way (tm) would be to drop mozilla, firefox and thunderbird >> from Debian -- there's no reason what works with the FSF can't work >> with the MoFo. > > The downside to this approach is that the Mozilla Foundation have no > good reason to /care/. They're a group that produces free software, but > they're not campaigning for freedom. In any case, we can make their > software DFSG-free by removing any references to the trademarks. > Dropping it entirely wouldn't really help anyone.
It seems to me that what the MoFo really cares about is market share, and producing /free/ software comes after that on their list of priorities. We drop their products from Debian, they lose market share. We drop their trademarks, and *we* lose market share: "eh, wtf, Debian hasn't got firefox? mozilla? thunderbird? sunbird? omgwtf $DISTRO has them!" Their trademark policy is something that should not exist in a free software context. They don't care about free software. They don't care about distributors/vendors. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
