On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:47:59 +0200, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I suggest that we wait for Debian to settle on something and that we >> follow their lead. My guess is that more distributions will follow >> sooner >> or later. > > I vote for having both. More choice is good. Debating the selection > criteria for the LiveCD is worthwhile. > I don't know about having both. But as I said, I think that in the Linux community Firefox are going to loose out to a completly free alternative. >> Another guess is that Mozilla Corp. is shooting itself in the foot with >> this (I recall that once upon a time there was an X-server called >> XFree86, >> but it seems to have vanished now). >> > > Nah. XFree86 was stagnating for awhile before the fork. X > development exploded after the fork which is why no one (almost) uses > XFree86 anymore. That's not what I've read. In short I thought it was something like this: Xfree86 devs decided that they wanted to change the license. Different Linux distributions said that they couldn't use Xfree86 if the license changed to the proposed, but the Xfree86 devs said that the license will be a fact. Then the X.org Foundation was founded before Xfree86 4.4 (which was under the new license) was released, true, but an official X.org release came some months later. http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html#xfree86 > Mozilla draws from the Win and Mac communities where > this is a much smaller issue. I don't see Linux only dev causing a > similar explosion. Still, I'd love to be wrong. > I think that Firefox will be split into two versions. One "unfree" version for Win and Mac and another free version for those that need it (Linux/*BSD). I don't think that Firefox will be branched in a similar way that Xfree86 was, instead the free version will just be a stripped version. -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
