icecat or/and firefox?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jan 28 07:05:19 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 22:48 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 11:52 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> > On 27 January 2014 05:36, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > > On 01/27/2014 05:08 AM, Christopher Meng wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Here is an interesting package icecat[1], which is a "more free"
> > >> version firefox.
> > 
> > I'd argue it's *less* free since it seeks to restrict what you can do:
> 
> Congratulations! You are the millionth person to regurgitate this
> entirely fruitless argument on the internet.
> 
> You win no prize.

I should note, I take no position. I just have seen enough instances of
the "permissive is more free!" "NO, copyleft is more free!" argument
for:

a) today
b) this week
c) a lifetime
d) the lifetime of the universe
-- 
Adam Williamson
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