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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 Sunday April 03 2016, @04:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 03 2016, @04:04AM (#326316)

    while many of your points are valid, i stopped using firefox because it was planning to have ads in the browser. when somebody targets my demographic, i take it seriously and would not give them more money. without ads, the issue is moot.

    while i despite the sjw agenda, if you attempt to deprive me of the freedom to present as my gender with lethal force, due to some biological loophole you've found, i will retaliate with lethal force. Really, that's regardless. The feminists are as much of a threat to my demographic as anti-sjws.

    i don't know where this sjw/anti-sjw thing is going. the sjws are obviously wrong. yet, just like the sjws you keep missing the target.

    yeah, i know where you're going with this. feminism => marxism. lgbt security and rights against violence => marxism. therefore feminism => lgbt identities. we'll see what my gun says when you try to deprive me of my property.

    you need to study your history boy.