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IceWeasel — Why Closed Source Wins
engtech writes, "There's been some hype about the Debian fork of FireFox called IceWeasel. Politics aside, this is a bad idea because it fragments the user base, divides the focus, and opens the path for Microsoft and Internet Explorer 7 to regain marketshare."
Linux users talking about fragmentation? Never heard of that before. Anyway, I'm off to distrowatch to download my 643rd distro. See you guys later.
People who run a linux desktop, likely dont use debian anyway. The few (thousand?) who DO, prefer lynx.
That is a disturbing logo.
I caught the Mountain Wumpus! He gave me his treasure chest ($100) to let him go free again.
I am a proud IE-on-Debian user and there are millions* like me!
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http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Pag
*0.00005 millions
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
Hey those what 10,000 debian desktop machines will really mess things up for Firefox.
I am a Linux user but let us all get a grip. Firefox on Linux is a tiny blip... Firefox on windows is where what scares Microsoft.
Even then Suse, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Linspire all use Firefox.
So I would rate this news as two yawns and a stretch.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
"Look, if we've got to rename Firefox... what's like fire, but not? Ice! What's like a fox, but not? A wolf! Cool! IceWolf! cool!"
"I just did a google search. A bunch of people are already using the term Ice Wolf."
"Our lawyers won't let us use the name - remember, the reason why we're renaming it is because we can't use the trademarked firefox images, so we can't step on Firefox's toes, and remember when Firefox was Phoenix and had to be renamed to Sunbird, and those names had trademark problems? We'vce got to steer clear of trademark problems."
"Crap. Lawyers are WEASELS!"
"Weasel? Works for me."
Bruce -
Supprisingly that option _IS_ available in firefox as a compile time switch. However (and the irony doesn't escape me here) Debian has patched firefox in such a way that this switch no longer works! Hurah!
~ Anders
It's supposed to be annoying to the Firefox developers, to spur them to do something about this.
Brian: Brothers! Brothers! We should be struggling together!
???: We are! Ohh.
Brian: We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy!
Everyone: The Judean People's Front!!??
n00b
Maybe something along these lines:
Any other suggestions? Any preference from the above? This clearly fills a need that I see in the community, so I shall leave it to the community to decide what they want.