Iceweasel

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 10/11/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On 10/11/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> > Looks like some people have already forked the "flaming vulpes"
> >> browser some
> >> > time ago. So here's Iceweasel for you:
> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ It
> >> > seems to have some added features over the original already.
> >>
> >> That project sounds scary.  Good luck to them.  They'll need it if they
> >> are going to be maintaining a patchset against upstream with how quickly
> >> it changes, and how regression prone any changes to the source are for
> >> even seasoned gecko developers.
> >>
> >
> > Didn't you get the memo?
>
> 8 times.
>

Can you fax us a signed copy?

> > You are supposed to be the Fedora/RHEL
> > contact and fixer up for this. We need a shipping product for the
> > RHEL-5 release.
>
> Okay.  I don't agree that the fork is a good idea.  So, I'll just change
> the name and icons.  Hm let's see...  Fire is not Ice and a Fox is not a
> Weasel, so I'll call ours Firefox.

You will need to get legal's opinion on that. We'll need a fax of that too.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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