On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Marco Boneff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> my 2 cents > > 1) If Mozilla's team doesn't want to be reasonable and discuss this with > the ubuntu community, ubuntu should behave in the same way. treating > Firefox as every other open source project included in the distro. > Firefox wants an EULA we don't want? We can use Iceweazel/Icedove as > debian does... and put the firefox package in the restricted repository. > End of the story. <snip> er.. its not about the 'Mozilla team' or the 'Ubuntu community', I think thats been made plainly obvious. As you probably know Moz Corp make bucket loads of $$ from the google search bar (literally many millions each year), and it is in their interest to have firefox used far and wide. With the upsurge in Ubuntu users (dell pushing it to end users) there is no way in hell Moz corp want to see firefox drop from #1 spot in the ubuntu suite of distros. How does that effect the descission to keep it (with the EULA) in Ubuntu? Well Canonical (another for profit company) as stated by Mark are in negotiations with Mozilla behind closed doors, its fairly obvious that one of the cards on the table is likley to be a revenue sharing model for Canonical for the google dollars, thats if it's not been the case from day one. Checking the URL arguments passed to google from the search box in firefox on hardy we see plainly: &rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a Part of what that is about is google identifying who's bank account needs topping up. This is hardly a 'conspiracy theory', its good business for Mozilla and its good business for Canonical, stop thinking this has anything to do with community. -- Timothy J Stebbing -- AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269656 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs