[gobolinux-users] Firefox & Mozilla

[kenneth marken]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:50:59 +0200, Rayne Van-Dunem  
> <raynenamibia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Actually, its not the trademark that is the main issue here, and I'm
>> thinking that the Iceweasel debate, in its present form, is 1)  
>> restricted to
>> Debian-Mozilla relations and 2) being blown *Way* out of proportion by  
>> the
>> media (both pro- and anti-FOSS).
>>
> I agree that the debate is out of propotions, but not due the reasons you  
> mention.
> 
>> For one, consider this: if someone outside of Mozilla *modifies* the  
>> Firefox
>> source code and redistributes it under the same name (Mozilla Firefox)  
>> with
>> distro-specific bugs (and even major code flaws), and the public gets  
>> ahold
>> of it, uses it, and gets turned off, they're going to point the finger
>> *directly* at Mozilla.
>>
> That's probably true but most certainly wrong. One should always turn to  
> the distributor as it may have made some changes to the app to make it  
> more fit to the system the destributor provides. How has Gnome, KDE and  
> similar big projects (which includes trademarks) handle such issues, I  
> haven't seen them muck about in the same way MozCo does.
> 

i belive it was some bruhaha between red hat and kde some years ago when 
red hat tryed to make gnome and kde look the same. this lead to them 
stripping the kde apps of their "about" menu options or something like that.