It's not about security, IceCat is highly insecure, we're always months behind
the latest ESR even. It's about people everywhere, regardless of OS, not being
stuck with such things as EME and mandatory signing. Hell with Firefox and
Chrome, Linux has that now too.
--
-Dan Q
On Thu, 29 Dec
Well they can get away with targeting home users, and you raise an interesting
point about child pornography laws, but for Fortune 500 companies and their
trade secrets you have to deal with stuff like non-disclosure agreements,
insider trading laws, military contractors, etc. Microsoft would
I think there's been a real problem lately where complaints by users are being
confused with official project decisions. Like when v45.5 and v45.3 were
released Linux only, some of us asked if a Windows version would be available,
and it turned into arguments about whether we should expand
THIS! 10/10 all the way. devs wasting precious time and resources working on
any windows software does nothing to help anyone in any way. we would all be
insulting our own intelligence and our principles, the very purpose of icecat;
to consider further enabling people to have a false sense of
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 21:37:31 Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> I doubt Microsoft would risk taking screenshots of employee's computers at
> Fortune 500 companies. Do you know how dangerously illegal that is?
No, I do not. Please enlighten us. When was the last time a major tech company
Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
>
> Ruben having discontinued Windows support for IceCat was the best and easiest
> way to force most of the human population into DRM.
Where did you see any such announcement?
Maybe we should start an alternate mailing list, political-gnuzi...@gnu.org, so
the rest
IceCat on Windows would be like wearing warm clothes in the cold in a
bad neighborhood. The bad neighborhood being a proprietary operating
system.
Many people don't have the means or the knowledge to move out of such
a neighborhood, but they'd like to enjoy some warmth, too.
-M.
2016-12-28
