Comment 243 for bug 269656

I mainly use and love open-source initiatives because of two reasons:
1) it's flexible, and very user-adjustable;
2) if you want a complete and usable system, you don't have to look your back thanks to the thousands of agreements you had to work through.

Now I know some pieces of software which can be installed in Ubuntu do have certain agreements bound to them (Adobe's Flash, for example), but exactly those agreements and restrictiveness prevent those packages to residue in the "main" archive and/or be installed together with ubuntu-desktop. Every user has to decide himself whether he wants to use a non-free (or less-free) piece of software, and install that manually.

Equally so, I'd myself prefer Firefox not to be installed by default, but again after the user has manually decided to, so you have no EULA-hassle when installing a default system. Switching to IceWeasel (or rebranding it to "Ubuntu web browser", for the sake of user-friendliness) is IMHO the best option in this discussion.