Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 11:08:11 UTC 2014


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Well, how to put it ... Mozilla.com's role in fedora has many times been
>> subject to controvercies, but doubts have always been ruled ;)
>
> They always get special exceptions for any and all Fedora policies that
> upstream does not want to comply with, with the excuse that otherwise we
> might lose the right to use the "Firefox" name (as if that were a
> catastrophe – Debian has been doing fine with "Iceweasel"). I'm totally fed
> up of that kind of unfair privileged treatment that NO other package in
> Fedora is getting.

Maybe no other package but Fedora itself. Criticizing Mozilla for
doing the same that we (Fedora) do is well ... hypocritical.


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