Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

[Matthew Woehlke]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Nathan Grennan wrote:
>>    I understand, but on the other hand does Fedora want a dozen bug
>> reports over Thunderbird being useless, because of a crappy default?
> 
> The problem is that Fedora can't change anything in Thunderbird (nor
> Firefox) without upstream buy-in because the maintainer refuses to rename
> the programs and thus we're bound by Mozilla's strict (and IMHO completely
> unreasonable and unacceptable in the Free Software world) trademark policy.

What's to stop someone ITP'ing* icecat? Get it in the repo, and go from 
there. If you can't work /with/ the maintainer(s), work around them.

(* Intent To Package. Yeah, I'm borrowing Cygwin terminology, sorry. Not 
sure what the equivalent in Fedora slang would be.)

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