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Firefox Faces Trademark Issues

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the all-in-a-name dept.

daria42 writes "The Debian development community is currently hotly debating whether the Mozilla Foundation's strict trademarks policy violates Debian's social contract. However, in a twist, it appears Mozilla has not received approval for the Firefox trademarks yet, and the Firefox name may already be taken in the UK and Germany. The foundation has not applied for the Thunderbird trademark anywhere yet."

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  1. EVERYTHING is about money. by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Everything is about money. Even open source software. Never forget that fact.

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  2. Re:I'll take that challenge... by reflective+recursion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the reason for firefox's existence has no relation to IE or Navigator. IE and Navigator are about as relevant to Firefox's existance as NCSA Mosaic and SpyGlass are.

    I really get sick of these damned revisionists. IE was never forced on anyone! People started downloading it because NS was a big bloated piece of proprietary lock-in FECAL MATTER. Jesus jumping-jack christ. Netscape was posed to completely fucking KILL the standardized web if MS was not around. They were not open source friendly and certainly not open standards friendly. Remember the BLINK tag? You can thank Netscape for that and many more proprietary extensions that did massive harm to the infant web and *severely* stunted the growth and acceptance of CSS.

    IE was playing catch-up for years. When IE was finally better, Netscape committed suicide (their management imploded). Feeling the need to place blame because they could never figure out how to turn a profit with Navigator or their web server, they cast the stone at Microsoft. Probably to establish confidence with what remained of their shareholders--they had to do something.

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