Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 01:08 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>> On 07/27/2010 10:53 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Are we skipping Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?  Beta 2 has been released
>>>> recently and I am wondering if we can go with it if it fits into the
>>>> schedule.  There are dozens of new features including WebM support that
>>>> would be nice to have.
>>
>> -1 didn't the last time we started using a pre-release from Mozilla turn
>> out pretty bad for us?
>
> That was Firefox 3.0 included as RC in Fedora 9, from an user
> perspective my memories about it are sweet... it was worse with
> Thunderbird 3, which was included in a release (F11) in Beta stage, and
> not even a late beta, it was something like Beta2, but AFAIK Firefox is
> expected to be RC around F14.
>
> And while Thunderbird 3 was included due to the slow development pace of
> the upstream (we used to have a very old Tb 2), Firefox 4 comes with at
> least a killer feature, WebM (IIRC, another killer feature is the new js
> engine)
>
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Quite the contrary.

The Linux kernel is trademarked. Linus isn't a jerk and doesn't
prevent distros from patching it.

Mozilla's trademark requirements violate Freedom #2
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it
do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a
precondition for this.

We're NOT allowed to make changes (patches) without their permission.
This is defacto non-free. I understand we work with upstream but that
shouldn't prevent us from maintaining it.
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