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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:59PM (#326237)

    have you read the bob dobbs books?

    Fighting the man/the system/brand-x has been going on for a while.

    the SJW thing is just another format, as are tea partiers. I don't want to say one is far left and one is far right; that's not nuanced enough. But it's clear that when us or them stopped working, they came up with a still us and still them after the respective movements were compromised.

    the 99%s can't be subgenii by the very nature, but many subgenii are 99% or 1%ers that came from the 99%. Few natural born 1%ers see humor in slack, fewer understand its context.

    The thing with slack is that they make it so perposterous, it is easy to dismiss. Much of it is a filter; as much as it'd be great if everyone had slack awareness... it's best to keep out those that do not. Anyway, i think a good anthem for the bob dobbs/slack disciples would be the Devo song "we're through being cool". it very effectively sums up, humorously, what many of the problems are. they also recognize the state of affairs in "beautiful world"...

    embracing slack is a new tradition, so to speak... but not enough people have embraced it, partially because they just don't see the world that way.