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IceWeasel — Why Closed Source Wins 551

Posted by kdawson on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:25PM from the some-say-the-world-will-end-in-fire dept.

engtech writes, "There's been some hype about the Debian fork of FireFox called IceWeasel. Politics aside, this is a bad idea because it fragments the user base, divides the focus, and opens the path for Microsoft and Internet Explorer 7 to regain marketshare."

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Re:Seamonkey (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:33PM (#16414269)

Linux users talking about fragmentation? Never heard of that before. Anyway, I'm off to distrowatch to download my 643rd distro. See you guys later.

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No fragmentation here. (Score:1, Funny)

by hondamankev ( 1000186 ) writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:33PM (#16414281)

People who run a linux desktop, likely dont use debian anyway. The few (thousand?) who DO, prefer lynx.

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Not exactly related, but... (Score:5, Funny)

by suparjerk ( 784861 ) writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:34PM (#16414289)

That is a disturbing logo.

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Stop marginalizing us! (Score:5, Funny)

by bunions ( 970377 ) writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:36PM (#16414351)

I am a proud IE-on-Debian user and there are millions* like me!

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page [tatanka.com.br]

*0.00005 millions

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Re:Debian marketshare = ??? (Score:5, Funny)

by LWATCDR ( 28044 ) writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:38PM (#16414381) Homepage Journal

Hey those what 10,000 debian desktop machines will really mess things up for Firefox.
I am a Linux user but let us all get a grip. Firefox on Linux is a tiny blip... Firefox on windows is where what scares Microsoft.
Even then Suse, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Linspire all use Firefox.
So I would rate this news as two yawns and a stretch.

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How the Weasel got its name (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @06:12PM (#16414859)

"Look, if we've got to rename Firefox... what's like fire, but not? Ice! What's like a fox, but not? A wolf! Cool! IceWolf! cool!"

"I just did a google search. A bunch of people are already using the term Ice Wolf."

"Our lawyers won't let us use the name - remember, the reason why we're renaming it is because we can't use the trademarked firefox images, so we can't step on Firefox's toes, and remember when Firefox was Phoenix and had to be renamed to Sunbird, and those names had trademark problems? We'vce got to steer clear of trademark problems."

"Crap. Lawyers are WEASELS!"

"Weasel? Works for me."

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Re:Debian vs. Mozilla.COM (Score:4, Funny)

by aconbere ( 802137 ) writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @06:25PM (#16415045)

Bruce -

Supprisingly that option _IS_ available in firefox as a compile time switch. However (and the irony doesn't escape me here) Debian has patched firefox in such a way that this switch no longer works! Hurah!

~ Anders

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Re:Debian vs. Mozilla.COM (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @07:35PM (#16415853)

It's supposed to be annoying to the Firefox developers, to spur them to do something about this.

Brian: Brothers! Brothers! We should be struggling together!
???: We are! Ohh.
Brian: We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy!
Everyone: The Judean People's Front!!??

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Re:Seamonkey (Score:0, Funny)

by cptnapalm ( 120276 ) writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @08:52PM (#16416903)

n00b

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Time to classify the word "fork" (Score:4, Funny)

by deek ( 22697 ) writes: on Thursday October 12, 2006 @11:35PM (#16418587) Homepage Journal
With such a wide discrepency in intentions between forked projects, it seems we need a new word to adequately describe things. Something that would describe forking a project, with the intent of keeping it close to the original project.

Maybe something along these lines:
- spoon - well after all, it's not really a fork.
- spork - continuing on the theme of almost being a fork.
- prong - I enjoy the idea of describing a project as "pronged".
Any other suggestions? Any preference from the above? This clearly fills a need that I see in the community, so I shall leave it to the community to decide what they want.
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Re:Time to classify the word "fork" (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday October 13, 2006 @10:21AM (#16422925)

There is no spoon.

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