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gnuzilla (aka icecat) article


From: bill-auger
Subject: gnuzilla (aka icecat) article
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2022 13:00:38 -0400

On Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:30:05 -0400 Free wrote:
> The Free Software Directory page Gnuzilla has been changed on
> 2 July 2022 by David Hedlund, see
> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gnuzilla for the current revision. 

i also fixed the IceCat redirect - someone had modified it and
broke the redirect somehow - that URL is linked to from the GNU
website
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IceCat

the reason i mention this though, is that is is incorrect to
list the software as "gnuzilla" - gnuzilla is not the name of
any software; and that article is clearly about icecat
specifically - gnuzilla is the name of the GNU project and team
which publishes the software named "icecat" - there is really no
reason to have any page for "gnuzilla" today

i suggest renaming/moving the Gnuzilla article to IceCat, and if
the gnuzilla URL is needed, make that be the redirect to the
IceCat article - there are multiple reason why that it more
appropriate

note that the topmost heading of the article is "GNU IceCat" -
then it goes on to explain:

> GNU IceCat (originally GNU IceWeasel) is part of GNUzilla
> (the GNU version of the Mozilla Application Suite). 

that was the original idea - but it has not been true for
probably 10 years or more - that description also suggests that
this article was originally made for icecat - since a very long
time, there is no software named "gnuzilla" - im not sure if
there ever was - today there is only icecat (and as the new
warning suggests, even icecat has not had a release in recent
years) - it is unlikely that there will ever be a "GNU version
of the Mozilla Application Suite" bearing the name gnuzilla

all that evidence put together, suggests that the "gnuzilla" URL
should be a redirect to the icecat article, until the unlikely
day arrives when there is a new "Gnuzilla Application Suite",
deserving of it's own article



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