Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 >> $DISTRO has them!" > > Maybe my market perception is *very*, *very* different from yours, > but IMHO the would be quite the opposite.
Not necessarily. > If we drop their products, the market sees: "Debian is without the > main FOSS internet suite!" and says "$DISTRO it is then", ie *we* > lose market share. If we drop their products, we issue a PR explaining why we dropped them. Just like we're about to do with the GFDL'ed docs. > If OTOH we drop their trademarks, our (prospective) users won't even > notice, because: > > (1) if they install or use a live-cd, they will see the browser icon > and "Iceweasel Web Browser" caption, and won't notice, and The icon won't be the firefox or mozilla icon. The name won't be firefox or mozilla. The user will notice. > (2) if they read about Debian before they install/use a live-cd, > they will stumble somewhere in the info "Debian uses a rebranded > version of Firefox called Iceweasel to protect its users (that may > want to modify and redistribute the software) from any trademark > liability. Don't count on it too much :) In the drop case, they would probably start looking for a firefox/mozilla package for Debian and would eventually end up on a d.o page explaining why the packages were dropped, thanks to the Google Magic (tm). 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]
