As for legal reasons, well... Isn't that lame they couldn't bother to check those before deciding on an international contest? I'm pretty sure there are customs duties to be paid in the EU and Canada if the PC is shipping from the U.S. So that's not a good reason.
These guys need a new PR team fast! Hehehehe
Well it was the EU not Europe after all. Sorry. So Russia's out too.
As for the legal complications, they could've come up with a cash prize or something else... This is very bad PR for the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox. They're not in a position where they can simply shun most of the world, especially considering that the places they excluded are the most likely to use Mozilla products!
Very sad for them.
As a Brazilian, I think I'll switch to Opera or start using Konqueror for the time being.
I though Mozilla and the whole free and open source movement was about, well, openness in the first place... Now they're shutting out 85% of the world! (and possibly a similar proportion of the world's developers if Brazil, India, China, South Africa etc. are taken into account. I'm assuming Russia is being included in Europe)
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As for legal reasons, well... Isn't that lame they couldn't bother to check those before deciding on an international contest? I'm pretty sure there are customs duties to be paid in the EU and Canada if the PC is shipping from the U.S. So that's not a good reason. These guys need a new PR team fast! Hehehehe
Well it was the EU not Europe after all. Sorry. So Russia's out too. As for the legal complications, they could've come up with a cash prize or something else... This is very bad PR for the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox. They're not in a position where they can simply shun most of the world, especially considering that the places they excluded are the most likely to use Mozilla products! Very sad for them. As a Brazilian, I think I'll switch to Opera or start using Konqueror for the time being.
I though Mozilla and the whole free and open source movement was about, well, openness in the first place... Now they're shutting out 85% of the world! (and possibly a similar proportion of the world's developers if Brazil, India, China, South Africa etc. are taken into account. I'm assuming Russia is being included in Europe)