Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 6/18/08, Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:

> From: Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>
> Subject: Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 3:18 AM
> This is new....
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/static/firefox/
> 
> I wonder what brought this on...
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> -- 

This basically means, /usr/bin/firefox > /dev/null

In the Mozilla Firefox Website Services

http://fedoraproject.org/static/firefox/website-services-agreement.html

page provided in this thread: 

This below

/***********************************************************************/
8. U.S. GOVERNMENT END-USERS. This Product is a "commercial item," as that term is defined in 48 C.F.R. 2.101, consisting of "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation," as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (Sept. 1995) and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202 (June 1995). Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212, 48 C.F.R. 27.405(b)(2) (June 1998) and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202, all U.S. Government End Users acquire the Product with only those rights as set forth therein.
/***********************************************************************/

is very much against Fedora's principles of Free Software.  This has to mean that Fedora will need to develop a free browser, much like Debian did and rebranded Firefox to "Iceweasel".  Debian warned others about this, and Fedora did not listen know they pulled it off on them :(

I was encouraged to write a bugzilla on when Firefox wanted me to accept a license agreement

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447661

Many users should file a bugzilla against firefox.  Or just decide not to update it or remove it altogether.  This is definitely anti-Fedora, I wonder how it got past them?

Regards,

Antonio