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Simon Avery wrote: > > ... but > IMO rebadging Thunderbird and Firefox as Icedove and Iceweasel is just > STUPID. Sorry - there's no other word for it! Most hardcore Debianites agree with you. Have you read about the issue? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622 Mozilla corporation asked Debian to choose between the DFSG and using the Mozilla trademarked names, and gave them about 1 month before release of Etch in which to make a decision. So they made the only reasonable decision possible and dropped the names. I guess they could have moved Firefox and Thunderbird to the graveyard that is "non-free", and removed the Debian customisations that upset Mozilla, but then it wouldn't have been part of Debian at all, and couldn't be included in the default install for a Desktop, and that would have been stupid.
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