Ivan, I suppose you have written my name by mistake*, and you were saying all that to another person. Another possibility is that I expressed bad in my bad english and you've understood me in the inverse sense of my thoughts.
(*) I don't provide Win32 binaries + I agree whole your arguments. El 15/07/15 a les 02:43, Ivan Zaigralin ha escrit: > Narcis, I am a bit confused by your apparent confusion, even as you seem > to be providing a Win32 binary. > > What I want to say here is my strictly personal opinion, and it does not > represent the views of other people associated with this project, nor > those of any organizations I happen to be affiliated with. > > I believe that Gnuzilla providing support for either Win32, OS X, or any > commercial mobile platform is a mistake because it is a total waste of > the development resources. The following argument would also work for > any platform which spits on (user) privacy and security. > > Sometimes it makes sense to provide free software on a non-free > platform, especially when it replaces a non-free app (e.g. libreoffice), > or has no non-free equivalent (e.g. LaTeX). But is there a point at all > in providing something like IceCat? Its only differences from the stock > Firefox focus on privacy and security, which the users of non-free > platforms already gave up completely. Giving a Windoze user IceCat is > like giving a pillow to a man who jumped from the roof of the Empire > State. Technically speaking, it will soften the blow, but in practice > it's just dead weight. When compatibility issues are taken into account, > there is basically no advantage over the stock Firefox. > > This issue reminds me of a lengthy rant I left on the TOR dev list, > accusing them of, well, incompetence (since I didn't want to assume > malice right away) for providing Windoze binaries. This was right after > the big dragnet closed on the drug stores, with (allegedly) hundreds of > secret services and users unmasked. I argued that giving Windoze users > TOR is not just useless, but counterproductive, since it gives a > completely false sense of anonymity where there is absolutely none. As a > matter of fact, it would be trivial for the law enforcement to update > Windoze to report and/or poison all local TOR activity, and by now it > has probably been done. > > IceCat for Win32 is definitely not in the same "incompetence" category, > but unless a case can be made for why it has anything on Firefox in that > environment, I'll keep calling it a waste. > > On 07/12/2015 11:19 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: >> "I'm trying to install icecat on Windows 8.1 " >> >> WHY ?! >> >> >> El 12/07/15 a les 13:42, John ha escrit: >>> I'm trying to install icecat on Windows 8.1 >>> >>> Steps to produce bug: >>> 1 Download 31.7.0 win32 zip file >>> 2 Extract with 7zip >>> 3 Navigate to the directory *\icecat-31.6.0.en-US.win32\icecat >>> 4 Run icecat.exe as administrator >>> Result: >>> 1 My mouse will have a hourglass symbol and I'm able to find >>> icecat.exe in task manager for 1 second >>> 2 Normal cursor returns and icecat isn't found in taskmanager. There >>> is no trade of me ever having tried to run icecat.exe >>> >>> I've tried running in various Windows comparability modes and version >>> 31.6.0. I still get the same result. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> > > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
