> Personally, I would rather stay away from the world of Google. Although I > have no real say in the matter. > That IMO would be a security breach, considering their ties to government > agencies.
ties to which government agencies? such as what, getting hacked by the NSA? reporting child pornography to the FBI as legally required by law? --Gravis On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Ed Ender <skae...@excite.com> wrote: > Personally, I would rather stay away from the world of Google. Although I > have no real say in the matter. > That IMO would be a security breach, considering their ties to government > agencies. > > Just my 2 cents! > > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: "T.J. Duchene" [t.j.duch...@gmail.com] > Date: 03/04/2015 06:14 PM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [Dng] Plan for Devuan to use Mozilla products as is > > > On 03/04/2015 01:25 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> I guess it is very likely that the first release of Devuan will use >>> >the re-branded Mozilla products. >>> > >>> >As far as I understood, the main reason for the re-branding is the >>> >Mozilla license that does not comply with DSFG >>> >(https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). Or the other >>> >way around? Sorry, I don't really understand licensing. >>> > >>> >Is Devuan going to use the exact same guideline? If not,is there any >>> >plan for Devuan to use Mozilla products as is in the future, >>> >especially Firefox and Thunderbird? > > If I recall correctly - which I may not be - the problem was that if > Debian wanted to use the Firefox name and logo, then Firefox must > approve every patch in advance, even security updates. Debian said that > was/is ridiculous so they were not allowed to use the logo or the name > for any Mozilla software. > > Quite frankly, I agree with that stance. It is stupid. But it is also > understandable. Mozilla does not want to be blamed for a bad patch they > had nothing to do with. > > If I might offer an alternative suggestion? I'd rather see Devuan > default to Chromium with NAPI support than use Firefox, period. As for > Thunderbird, I see no reason to use Mozilla's version. Unless things > have changed since I last heard, it undermaintained anyway. Mozilla was > going to sunset the entire project, but outcry stop them. As far as I > know, they update it with new versions of XUL but do little else. > > I don't think it has had new features not related to keeping up with > Firefox in over five years. > > t.j. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
