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UK Government Confiscates Firefox CDs

Alsee writes "The idea that Free Software can be sold has some government officials perplexed. Times Online has the story. A UK Trading Standards officer contacted the Mozilla Foundation to report catching a business selling copies of Firefox. The organization confiscated the CDs with the intent to prosecute said business. When informed that such distribution was authorized, the officer first expressed disbelief that Free Software could be sold then said 'If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation'."

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  1. I love Mozilla by Nick+Fury · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I 3 Mozilla Foundation.

  2. YOU "3" THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the fuck does that mean? Go learn some HTML entities, cocksmoker!

  3. niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are inferior mud people. hurricane katrina we thank you!

  4. "Hacking for Christ" ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So a "Christ-Hacker" has this position in the mozilla foundation.

    Nothing specifically wrong with this, I guess.

    But, I do find it somewhat amazing, that smart people believe in this magical sky daddy (heavenly father), and entity with one real goal, being worshipped.

    Yes I find it amazing that religious fundamentalist not only exists, but are a large percentage of people, in a modern world, creating war and "terrorism" to spread the ideas that have not really been thought through at all.

    Christian summary

    "There was once a sole entity that was lonely and needed to be worshipped, so it created angels. But the angels didn't work out, and some of them sprouted horns and did their own thing. So the entity created two humans. But one human ate the knowledge fruit. This was bad, so the entity, made them have pain and give birth to more. Then later on, humans were being bad again, so he drowned most of them, and started fresh. The rules were simple, worship the entity and do what it says, then you can go to the magical place where the streets are made of a titanitum gold alloy, but the streets are really not needed. But the humans were bad again. This time he came up with the obvious final solution. The solution was to impregnate one of the humans, and give that baby magical powers. Then spread the legend of this entity son. Then the obvious way to distingquish between good and bad humans would be weather they believe in the legend of the entities son or not. Later on if that fails (which is assumed) to make humans worship it, the entity will send the son and some dragons and really test the humans."

  5. Re:Licenses by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    complexity is a design fault

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