[gobolinux-users] Firefox up to date

[Sean Russell]

On Friday 28 July 2006 13:00, MJ Ray wrote:
> Why include an unmodifiable Firefox browser when we can include
> a free software Firefox browser?

Well... because users may not want to compile Firefox themselves.  
Firefox, and OO, are enormous.  I've run out of disk space trying to 
compile Firefox before.  I've run out of swap space trying to compile 
OO.  KDE... well, that just takes a few days to compile; I can live 
with that.  But something that renders my machine unusable when I try 
to compile it... I'd rather just update a binary.

If you meant "we" in that somebody in the Gobo team will be responsible 
for building and maintaining an "pure" Firefox... well, I think that 
question answers itself.  If there's somebody willing to do it, and the 
end result is a binary I can download, then fine.  Otherwise, somebody 
at Mozilla is already doing that hard work, and I'm fine with using 
their builds.

> software, but why include non-free software that's based on
> free software and almost identical to it? 8-/

Why not include the non-free software?  Why not include both?  Isn't the 
point about freedom, including the freedom to enslave yourself?

Let us please not become another Debian.  Lord, sometimes I just want to 
*use* the software.

--- SER

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