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Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), publisher of Debian™ GNU/Linux and Debian™ GNU/kFreeBSD™ has reached an agreement in its longstanding trade dress dispute with the Mozilla Corporation, publisher of the Firefox application suite. Under the agreement, SPI will pay an undisclosed sum to the Mozilla Corp. and periodically turn over marketing data regarding SPI's customers. In exchange, SPI will receive a nonexclusive license to distribute the Firefox suite as part of SPI's Debian™ products.
SPI agreed not to alter the branding of the Firefox suite; not to disable its Pocket integration; not to alter the suite's anti-phishing or search features, which are sponsored by Mozilla Corp. partners; and to discontinue its competing Iceweasel Web suite, which is based on Mozilla Corp. software licensed under a previous accord. The Firefox suite will be provided to SPI's Debian™ customers as an automatic update via the firm's Dpkg℠ service. The updates will go out over the course of the next three months to groups of randomly selected customers, in order to provide what SPI calls "a superior upgrade experience."
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Bot on Saturday April 02 2016, @04:50PM
Before the adoption of systemd as the default init, people would have not fallen for this.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Saturday April 02 2016, @05:20PM
Perhaps because those who would not have fallen for it have already left.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday April 02 2016, @06:13PM
I dunno if I was clear enough, I consider the news (the submission) a troll, which would have been unmasked easily if debian stuck to its tradition and kept systemd as a mere init choice instead of using an unfinished, and never to be finished systemd as the mandatory infrastructure for their stack. No other piece of software plays that role.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:56PM
It's great when people rant about how Debian have switched exclusively to systemd, revealing that they have not been paying attention at all.
systemd is Debian's default init, on those platforms where it is supported -- note, a default indicates that other choices are available, and there are also Debian variants which will be non-systemd for as long as systemd is not portable to them.
Debian is actually one of the few distros that offers several init alternatives, and is making significant efforts (mostly from the beleaguered systemd maintainers, very generously supporting stuff they don't actually use) to make sure that things all continue to work despite the fact that various upstreams have chosen (quite reasonably) to rely on features that turn out to only be provided by systemd/logind.
If a few more of the whining tosspots would spend less time complaining about conspiracy theories, and more time doing something useful (like help maintain ConsolKit2) then the future on non-systemd inits in Debian would be even more certain than it already is.
In case you're not aware, Debian is a volunteer project. If even a handful of people in the project (or outside the project via sponsorship) get off their arses and do the work needed, then the future of non-systemd-Debian is assured.
If on the other hand the future you are apparently worried about were to come about, it will be because nobody (that's capable of doing more that whining) gives a shit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @10:59PM
In case you're not aware, Debian is a volunteer project. If even a handful of people in the project (or outside the project via sponsorship) get off their arses and do the work needed, then the future of non-systemd-Debian is assured.
Already being done by the Devuan team.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @11:06PM
The problem with Systemd being that it is clearly deliberately and quite openly aiming to exploit 'system effects' to make itself indispensable.
It's a trojan horse project that does not even attempt to deny that fact. They're quite open about it.
Given that, any distro that adopts it, even as an *option* let alone a default, needs a slap up the side of the head. Debian lost their last shreds of credibility when these SOBs deliberately abused policy to get systemd made the default *and got away with it.*
RIP Debian, thank Volkerding Slack still works like a charm.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 03 2016, @12:46AM
I guess you did not try to use stock debian with other inits. Xorg depends on systemd-udevd.
Anyway stopping booting from systemd is already some progress.