Comment 417 for bug 269656

I just read http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080917045510597 and I see Canonical/Ubuntu as being characterized as being on the wrong side of this issue and I have to agree. The one avoidable mistake that I think was made was to ship the version that required the click-through. We could have done as Fedora did an stay with an earlier version until this was resovled.

@Mark Shuttleworth: I completely understand that more good can be done in private in many cases, but what you are seeing here is a reaction to something that we (as Ubuntu Developers) could have avoided by not shipping a version that required the click-through while this was being worked out. If this discussion had been around "We aren't updating Firefox until we get this worked out with Mozilla corp" then I think people would feel very differently about Canonical/Ubuntu's role in this mess. I suspect it would have only strengthened your negotiating leverage and would have been respected by the community.