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Under New Agreement, Debian™ to Include Firefox Suite

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 02 2016, @03:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the seems-very-one-sided dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

According to Softpedia:

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."

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by http on Saturday April 02 2016, @06:39PM

    by http (1920) on Saturday April 02 2016, @06:39PM (#326188)

    Please, do everyone, especially yourself, a favour and go sit in a daffodil patch for six hours. Preferably in sunshine. If you typed that from scratch, get help. If you copied and pasted it, get better help, because you saved it especailly for this occasion meaning you don't simply have bad intent and poor impulse control.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:42PM (#326213)

    Your shaming tactics are transparent and useless, meatpuppet.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:51PM (#326217)

    The truth fears no investigation. The post you're replying to has sources to back up its claims. Where the evidence of claimed malicious intent? Why are you afraid of their post? It is only information, it can't harm you. Relax, you are being hypersensitive and derisive for no apparent reason.

    Perhaps you should take your own advice and rest on your laurels.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:47PM (#326231)

    Surely you jest. That or you are painfully ignorant of the predilections embraced by the Hacker ethos:

    "In Tirades Veritas", heathen! [flavourcountry.net]

    (Truth in tirades.)

    Praise Bob!

  • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Sunday April 03 2016, @06:53AM

    by bitstream (6144) on Sunday April 03 2016, @06:53AM (#326369) Journal

    Unless you can disprove what the person above writes. I'm more inclined to think you either is a useful zombie or have something to hide.