Weasels

[David Bendit]

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At least Ice Weasel is a play on Firefox. On my Mac, I like to run some
independently-compiled version with Intel optimizations that has to be
called Bon Echo. Yuck.

- -David

Ted Gould wrote:
| On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 20:52 -0500, alexanderhenry at cox.net wrote:
|> I rebuke the Ice Weasel.  Just when the beautiful Firefox
|> logo gains positive momentum in the minds of computer users,
|> Debian calls it a Trademark that they can't include.  I don't
|> want an ice weasel, I want my sexy Firefox.
|
| That's a little misleading.  The Mozilla Foundation has stated that you
| can't use the Firefox trademark if you make modifications to the
| codebase.  They've effectively removed the software freedom if you call
| it Firefox.
|
| I agree with Debian's decision.  And I'm excited about the Epiphany with
| a webkit backend.
|
| I understand their need to protect their trademark but a more reasonable
| policy like "noting the changes in a significant way" or some such would
| be more friendly.  It's difficult to find a vectored Firefox logo also,
| they only release compiled copies (bitmaps).
|
| 		--Ted
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