Comments on: 5 Reasons to Kill and to Support Ice Weasel

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:42:41 +0000

Why is everyone jumping on Debians back for this change when it is Firefox’s decision. Debian would of been more than happy to let it slide, Firefox developers were the ones with the problem of Debian stripping the ‘fox’ off the globe icon and applying patches without their consent. Sounds like since Firefox is getting more market share they are getting a little bit of M$ “Bill” syndrome.

I can understand it to some degree from both sides as Firefox wants “needs” to protect the name and more importantly Debian needs to keep everything open source and free (aka Not RedHat or Suse or …) (Which the error reporting in Firefox is NOT)

I can see the path of Linux distros caving in to “Binary only, but freely distributable software” Until things like this happen and it sets the OSS community back further…. It’s important to fork the code ASAP and stay with BSD or GPL v2 licensing.

Don’t even get me started on ATI and NVidia and their neglect to OSS.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:49:38 +0000

is it me or is he humping the earth?

By: kinalus

kinalus — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:37:38 +0000

As far as I understand, the community edition allows custom builds with different options, but not modified/patched code which is what Debian people want to do.

By: f h

f h — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:58:14 +0000

what about
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html

By: Fnorx

Fnorx — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:45:26 +0000

Why get frustrated in Firefox’s accomplishments and release Icekitten (or was it weasel?) just out of jealousy?

If you have security fixes, improve Firefox, don’t try to bring up another (ANOTHER) browser sharing the same goals…

By: Max Littlemore

Max Littlemore — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:52:43 +0000

I personally quite like the name and I don’t see how a bunch of Debian/Ubuntu geeks (I am one of these) can effect the number of windows or mac users or the perception in this market. I also think that if rendering engine is used as a metric, or if Iceweasel reports itself as Firefox, the stats wont be effected either.

So all in all I’m for it, seeing as the name is the only thing effecting my decision and the rest of the arguments in the against list seem just plain stupid.

As for the weasel humping the Earth, I don’t think this is a serious icon, but it would make a fantastic throbber. Might make it harder to get mum to switch to Ubuntu tho.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:42:42 +0000

Oh sorry but I am sure almost everybody will think: that beast ist f***** something. It was even my first thought. And for that part – my girlfriend asked straight away: what is that thing doin?? (with that special voice you know ;))

By: Marco (Griffith) Jardim

Marco (Griffith) Jardim — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:34:22 +0000

I believe that the term used by the person who originally posted it was “humping”, but yes, in a more slang’ish term he is doing that. But mind you, that gif is a mockery of what one of the proposed icons looks like (basically, it was given animation over the original one).

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:32:41 +0000

it can’t be Frost Tiger – I think World of Warcraft got that name :P

By: john

john — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:13:36 +0000

is the little animal fucking planet earth?

By: Marco (Griffith) Jardim

Marco (Griffith) Jardim — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:10:06 +0000

I’m sorry, I got mixed up in my own words and ended up missing it completely when I posted (I was also in a bit of a hurry).

I made a new first paragraph which should be much easier to understand. I thank you for your input and your preference in our blog.

By: Quality

Quality — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:40:54 +0000

Can you at least read the first sentence of your article again before posting it?