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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:58:48PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > Simon Avery wrote: > > I'm not going to get into an arguement with a hardcore debianite, but > > IMO rebadging Thunderbird and Firefox as Icedove and Iceweasel is just > > STUPID. Sorry - there's no other word for it! > > > Yeah, not only that it confuses people and when you try and explain the > reasoning it sounds really petty and hardly something a new user is going > to be impressed with. However I do understand why it's done. If you understand why it was done, why do you feel it is petty? Or do you just mean it *sounds* petty? Debian is legally not allowed to distribute their iceweasel package under the name firefox, and this is something that Mozilla Corp. insist upon. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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