Re: advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

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On February 13, 2014 6:04:01 PM EET, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:36:00PM +0100, Kai Engert wrote:
>> Question (2) 
>> 
>> Is the Fedora community willing to accept Mozilla's desire to show
>> advertisements in Firefox?
>
>Sub-question (2b):
>
>Why do we care about using the Firefox trademark?  We should just
>rename the package.  Debian do that and it hasn't hurt them.  It makes
>the software more free because we don't have to beg someone to be able
>to make changes.
>
>Rich.
>
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Because people will keep looking for Firefox at the Software app. I don't think we have to change the name if we just turn off a feature. Same way we alter the default homepage all these years.

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