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Now, Debian decides that Firefox is not free because of the trademark. And more than one source has noted that Debian is having problems both with the success of Ubuntu as well as the patches that Ubuntu is contributing back to the Debian developers. And there has been some in-fighting in the project as well (Dunc Tank comes to mind).Ī highly regarded developer quit the project citing internal squabbles then, Mark Shuttlesworth acknowledged that tension exists between Ubuntu and Debian. They could easily stop adding Firefox to their distro and let the end user decide whether or not to use Firefox rather than taking an action that will amount to duplication of effort at best, forking Firefox at the worst.įor a non-commercial distro, Debian sure has seemed moody as of late. If anyone is putting Debian users at risk with this behavior, it’s Debian. When a distro like Debian makes customizations of Firefox, Mozilla needs them to pass the changes by them so that they can verify their own patches work and don’t break anything. Considering the Windows platform is 90% of the PC market, I admire the Mozilla foundations continuing efforts to release simultaneously on all it’s supported platforms. Mozilla releases patches for all the platforms it’s browser is on at the same time. It’s too bad that Firefox has this attitude. By not using the Firefox name, they are free to do updates as they see fit. Since Firefox gives priority to Windows, this can put Debian’s users at risk.

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The Firefox people object to Debian doing its own security updates and calling the update Firefox.

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