I just read http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080917045510597 and I see Canonical/Ubuntu as being characterized as being on the wrong side of this issue and I have to agree. The one avoidable mistake that I think was made was to ship the version that required the click- through. We could have done as Fedora did an stay with an earlier version until this was resovled.
@Mark Shuttleworth: I completely understand that more good can be done in private in many cases, but what you are seeing here is a reaction to something that we (as Ubuntu Developers) could have avoided by not shipping a version that required the click-through while this was being worked out. If this discussion had been around "We aren't updating Firefox until we get this worked out with Mozilla corp" then I think people would feel very differently about Canonical/Ubuntu's role in this mess. I suspect it would have only strengthened your negotiating leverage and would have been respected by the community. -- 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
