Humberto Massa Guimarăes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. > > And *then* Debian will be left without a mozilla-compatible web > browser, not without Mozilla itself.
There's still Galeon and a couple of others, based on Gecko. Should be enough. >> The icon won't be the firefox or mozilla icon. The name won't be >> firefox or mozilla. The user will notice. > > The firefox and the mozilla icons (and and even their brands) are > not so-well-known as you are assuming IMHO. Indeed I'm assuming that a firefox user knows what the firefox icon looks like. > My experience (6 years) as a final-user-supporter: they see the > thing that looks like a globe, a planet, or has "web browser" or > "internet" as its caption, web browser interface (forward, back, > url, topping the browser panel) appears, they are happy. My experience is a bit different; there are people who just do not care, and will look for the web browser/planet icon or whatever that looks like that, and the people who will look specifically for firefox. >> 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). > > QED. In the rebrand case, they will look for said package and Google > will take them to a page saying "Firefox is called Iceweasel under > debian to protect you from trademark lawsuits", they think "oh, > good, this Debian fellow is a nice guy helping protect me." As long as their next thought is "why the hell did the MoFo come up with such a stupid trademark policy", I'll be happy. 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]
