Firefox trademark shenanigans (Re: Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/2/06, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 19:37:10 +0000,
>   Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > Christopher Aillon <caillon <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > > Fedora does what Fedora wants.  I've pushed for new releases because I
> > > can't possibly keep up with the security backporting.  See above.  The
> > > fact that I want to meet their needs at this time is a coincidence.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I wasn't saying version upgrades are a bad thing (I'm all
> > for them), just that not having a choice is a bad thing.
> >
> > Thanks for the explanations.
> >
> > It's not just IE, by the way, pretty much all the browsers have "Mozilla" in
> > their UA strings nowadays. ;-)
> > Konqueror identifies itself as:
> > "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.4 (like Gecko)"
>
> I believe this dates back to the browser wars when IE was playing catch up.
> Web servers were checking the user agent string for 'Mozilla' before sending
> pages using Netscape extentions to HTML. When IE was able to hand those
> extensions, they still weren't being used because the web sites were all being
> updated to take into account its new features. So they started using 'Mozilla'
> in their user agent string to make their browser work 'better' on those web
> sites.
>

Seems to me that MozCo needs to start going after other browser before
they pick fights with distros.

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