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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #269656
  2. Comment #469

Comment 469 for bug 269656

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Creak (romain-failliot) wrote : Re: [Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Let's imagine we're *not* talking about Google and Mozilla. I definitely
won't trust an Open Source software that is offered to me with a
pre-accepted EULA.
The reason is simple: it's only about trust. W'e ve seen, more than once,
companies that suddenly made their patented technology into profit (GIF,
JPG, MP3, ...). Thus as long as the company doesn't write clearly that it
will keep its technology free as in freedom, we can consider it potentially
closed.

So, even if I trust Google and even more Mozilla, I still want to be
reassured that what I'm using will not be suddenly shutdown or not free (as
in beer). And the only way to do that is to have a compatible free software
license [1]. Simple as that!

That said, if the services are disabled by default but that the first
Firefox page advices me to enable them. As far as I trust Ubuntu and that I
know Canonical point of view about freedom, I'll do it! But this way I don't
have the impression that someone is twisting my arm.

[1] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/