Comment 89 for bug 269656

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Casey J Peter (caseyjp1) wrote : Re: [Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

As one of the "users" (I submit bug reports when I find em', but for the
most part I'm a "USER",) I don't give a damn if there is a EULA or not. I
DO give a damn if firefox is included by default or not. It was a big
enough deal to me that when debian foisted off "iceweasel" I quit using that
distribution entirely. FOSS is great, but when it gets "religious", it gets
rediculous.

We users prefer firefox for its add-ons/tabbed browsing and, oh yeah, did I
mention, add-ons? If mozilla's EULA is a nag reminder about their
trademarked name, it is their name, right? Its one single extra click to
either yay/nay, right?

Personally, as one of the users, I think this stuff is much ado about
nothing. Now if that EULA was a change to indicate that the "fox" is no
longer open source/free/etc., then I'd see the complaint.

I can think of about a billion things I'd rather the makers/shakers of the
distro should be focusing on over this, not the least of which is the SABDFL
edict about passing Apple in the "coolness" department.

Of course I'm one of those people who actually uses Nvidia's binary drivers
as well. ;)

Open discourse is always good, but this is this loyal ubuntu user's 2
cents. (And by loyal, I mean since warty.)