Linux Debian support - to firefox or not to firefox?

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to firefox or not to firefox?

2006-09-27, 7:17 pm

The firefox trademark is causing discomfort:

Firefox Not Really Free?
By Sean Michael Kerner
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-new...cle.php/3634591

May I suggest an alternative name such as

Hotfur
or
Hotspur
--
ac

arachnid

2006-09-28, 1:13 pm

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:40:01 +0100, ac wrote:

> The firefox trademark is causing discomfort:
>
> Firefox Not Really Free?
> By Sean Michael Kerner
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-new...cle.php/3634591
>
> May I suggest an alternative name such as
>
> Hotfur
> or
> Hotspur

This reminds me of the XFree86 developers' pigheadedness over a
similarly silly issue not too long ago. That resulted in a fork and Xorg
rapidly displacing Xfree86. Maybe it's time to fork Firefox?