[WikiEN-l] Firefox (was Re: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, Dec 2007))

[Anthony]

On 10/21/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/10/2007, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Firefox became too concerned
> > with their name and it's usage, and people stopped using it (Debian) -
> > who does that help?
>
> Ho hmm. To clarify, by "people stopped using it", I meant people
> stopped using the name (not that people stopped using the software).
> For Debian (and other hard-FLOSS projects), Firefox's policy on the
> usage of their name was too non-free and it needed to be changed (to
> ColdWeasel, I believe).
>
If Firefox had said that the name Firefox could only be used for free
software, I don't think Debian would have cared.  The problem with
Firefox is they tried to restrict the use of the name in free
software.