On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 20:26 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I think we have lost the battle to get Epiphany > > installed as the default browser on popular Linux distributions. The > > Firefox brand was just something that they couldn't do without. > > ... > > Once upon a time, Internet Explorer was a brand that Mac OS couldn't do > without.
I doubt that was their reasoning, personally. > But it's not a good idea for an OS vendor to be dependent on > an ISV that's far more interested in Windows, so Apple acted > accordingly. The same problem applies to Firefox on Linux-based OSes, > just not as much yet. Everything I've heard suggests that Firefox is very happy to integrate with GNOME. It just hasn't happened fully yet. > True, Internet Explorer wasn't Free Software, but neither is Firefox > unless you debrand it. And if you do that, whoops, you've lost that > "Firefox brand". How do you suggest that we persuade the distros to use Epiphany given that we've failed to do that so far? -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
