Mozilla Is Investigating Why Dell Is Charging To Install Firefox

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 5, 2014 @01:21PM from the power-button-surcharge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dell is charging customers £16.25 ($27.18) to install Firefox on a newly purchased computer. We contacted Mozilla to find out more. The company told us it is investigating the issue and denied it has any such a deal in place. 'There is no agreement between Dell and Mozilla which allows Dell or anyone else to charge for installing Firefox using that brand name,' Mozilla's Vice President and General Counsel Denelle Dixon-Thayer told TNW. 'Our trademark policy makes clear that this is not permitted and we are investigating this specific report.' Dell has responded by saying that this practice is okay because the company is charging for the service and not the product."

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Re:I am not ok with this. by Narcocide · 2014-03-05 14:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Incidentally, aside from being inaccurate (read the Mozilla TOS) its also not even remotely excusable to misuse the moderating features to mark me troll or flamebait for pointing out you're wrong, no matter how much Dell may be paying you to do so.
Re:No modpoints for you. by gavron · 2014-03-05 15:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You'd have to go through a lot more effort than that, but it's certainly possible.
Fortunatley meta-mod eventually ferrets out the dicks no matter how much they hide.
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