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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) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:24PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 02 2016, @07:24PM (#326205) Journal

    And the proof is in the pudding:

    No, it isn't. I just ate the pudding, and couldn't find a proof in it.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday April 02 2016, @10:00PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday April 02 2016, @10:00PM (#326258)

    Aha! But did you drink the cool aid? :D

    But seriously, conventional distributions and systemd go too well together for systemd's faults to ever become an issue worth fighting over. Consider that systemd's overreaching size forces user-land dependencies that non-functional package manager couldn't resolve in the past: Sure, they tried... Debian and Red Hat followed stable releases and backporting patches as best they could. But, eventually herding the linux wildebeests devs was proving too much. Ubuntu and Arch didn't became popular because people were bored, they sacrificed varying degrees of functionality and stability for the sake of newer hardware and software support.

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    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 03 2016, @07:28AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 03 2016, @07:28AM (#326380) Journal

      Aha! But did you drink the cool aid? :D

      Why? Does it generate that whooshing sound?

      Hint. [thefreedictionary.com]

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