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Ross Bearman wrote: > After discussions with Canonical, Mozilla has decided to drop the EULA: > > In her blog, Baker wrote, "We've come to understand that anything > EULA-like is disturbing, even if the content is FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open > Source Software) based. So we're eliminating that. We still feel that > something about the web services integrated into the browser is > needed; these services can be turned off and not interrupt the flow of > using the browser. We also want to tell people about the FLOSS license > — as a notice, not as as EULA or use restriction. Again, this won't > block the flow or provide the unwelcoming feeling that one comment to > my previous post described so eloquently." > > Regards, Ross Bearman > Well I guess in the short term it's good thing but I can't help thinking that Canonical should really look into a plan B and be ready for Mozilla pulling another stunt like this. I'm seriously thinking about switching to a different distro, my PC hasn't been stable with Ubuntu 8.04, I'm not sure if it's a combination of hardware I have (evil Nvidia drivers) or what but it just doesn't seem stable. Maybe that'll change with 8.10, maybe not. I'm thinking of checking out either Mint (if they have a 64-bit build) or the next release of Debian. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html