"P.B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: >> It depends on who you're talking to. >> >> Windows+Firefox is better than Windows+IE, but it's always worth mentioning >> that they can have complete freedom with GNU/Linux and IceCat. >> >> I use IceCat. It's works grand, and I trust the project manager (more than >> I do for Firefox). > > Unfortunately, there are 2 things which might make icecat a no-go for > many people: > > - I can't find it (or iceweasel) in the default ubuntu repositories. > - As far as I've read, it doesn't support nonfree-flashplugin - only > gnash. That's a killer.
People who have no problem adding non-Free Software to their browser probably don't care that much about having a complete free operating system and/or browser. So they are probably not the main target group of IceCat. Beside i want to mention that afaik using Firefox doesn't mean using non-Free Software necessarily. Afaik only the binaries you get from Mozilla contains non-Free Software like Talkback but you can build a complete free Firefox from the sources. E.g. Fedora distributes Firefox and they are committed to distribute only Free Software (with an exception for Firmware though)[1]. So i'm quite sure that their Firefox doesn't have any non-Free blobs. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines best wishes, Björn -- Björn Schießle Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) (http://www.fsfeurope.org) Support Free Software, join FSFE's Fellowship (http://www.fsfe.org/join)
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