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  Comment: Re:He doesn't say Firefox isn't really free softwa (Score 1) 2008-11-17 11:37

by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 17, @11:37AM (#25786775)
Attached to: Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free

Get over it. The trademark isn't free. The source code is or else there would be no Iceweasel.
Iceweasel must be the worst name EVER for what is basically a name and graphics fork.
You know I really liked RMS ideals but they will never work. FOSS doesn't fill every software need and I don't think it ever will. I use FOSS, I contribute code, and I tell others about it but I don't think it will replace closed source.

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  Comment: Re:He doesn't say Firefox isn't really free softwa (Score 1, Informative) 2008-11-17 11:01

by hummassa on Monday November 17, @11:01AM (#25785941)
Attached to: Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free

No, they aren't, because the Firefox name and logo are registered and well-defended trademarks, so you can't modify them, etc. Iceweasel is Free, though.

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  Politics: The First E-President 2008-10-28 21:01

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 28, @09:01PM
from the probably-not-ted-stevens dept.
Government
Szentigrade writes "Popular Science is running a letter by Daniel Engber of the online Slate Magazine in which he offers the US Presidential nominees advice on using the full potential of the Internet upon their election into office. Some examples discussed in the letter include: a project already being developed that speeds up the patent approval process, a UK site that aims to improve government-citizen interactions, and perhaps most importantly, a call for government information to be 'presented in a standardized and widely used data format, like XML, so that anyone — in or out of government — could use and reconfigure it however they pleased.' Will 2009 be the first year of the E-President?"
government politics ughnotxml secretaryoftheinternet usa
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