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Re: Packaging a free Firefox
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Mike Gerwitz |
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Re: Packaging a free Firefox |
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Sun, 06 May 2018 20:36:14 -0400 |
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On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 18:33:56 +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 06.05.2018 um 16:05 schrieb Mike Gerwitz:
>> In the case of their addon
>> system, they encourage installation of non-free addons, which is against
>> the Free Software Distribution Guidelines (FSDG), and is the same reason
>> that Debian isn't a recommended free software distribution.
>>
> My aim is to empower people, not to infantilize them.
>
> If we disable adding add-on, we appoint ourselves as guardian for
> immature users. And this IMHO is contrary to "free" (as in "free speech").
There might be a miscommunication: I'm not suggesting that we disable
addons (I use many of them), merely that we do not have the default
Firefox addon page, which encourages non-free software. IceCat replaces
it with its own page that uses the free software directory, for example.
Users are free to use that directory; go to addons.mozilla.org
themselves; or install addons however else they choose.
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- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, (continued)
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Mark H Weaver, 2018/05/16
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/05/17
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Katherine Cox-Buday, 2018/05/17
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Mike Gerwitz, 2018/05/06
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Pjotr Prins, 2018/05/06
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Hartmut Goebel, 2018/05/06
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- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Pjotr Prins, 2018/05/08
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