__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:05 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 12:56 \__
>>
>>> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>
>>> <snip detailed description of the quality of the debian team and
>>> its internal management processes>
>>>
>>> An excellent posting which I wholeheartedly agree with.
>>
>> I've been advocating a lot of Debian in Digg recently. I think it's the
>> only one I can still trust (from a technical and 'political' point of
>> view).
>>
>
> The political positioning of Debian has resulted in some interesting
> challenges, such as how to get eg., Nvidia installers and Realplayer
> installers without having the binaries in the distribution, but having
> said all that, I think that the overall position they take on things is
> very much the correct one.
>
> There are some unfortunate and unintended consequences, though - like
> firefox in debian is called iceweasel because of the positioning the
> firefox team have taken on the use of its name.
Yes, they get a lot of criticism over this one. The Tom, Dick and Harry,
issues like trademarks mean very little. Given that Mozilla is not assigning
a low priority to Linux (shame of these hypocrites), IceWeasel could just
develop into a fork. Netscape 9 will be coming out soon as well. It's cross
platform. Flock seems to be very much alive (despite some departures) and
SwiftFox gets a slap for licensing issues.
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