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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: 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.