Comment 434 for bug 269656

Great post Chip, I don't think anyone has been advocating the outright removal of Firefox from ubuntu. I don't even consider myself to be much of a free software zealot, but I do start thinking of ideals when issues like this rear their ugly heads.

Clearly (IMO, and take it for whatever it's worth) I think that software that makes you click through a EULA has no place in a free software repo. I have ZERO issues with firefox being in another repo other then main. I don't think it would be in anyone's interest to go firefox free. But I think the simple fix here would be to move FF to multi, and have a non branded version in main. I mean, how many people choose NOT to use non-free repos anyway? But moving FF out of main would be the fairest way of moving forward. The purists would be happy, and those who don't care either way ( and that is clearly their right, so people from either side quit yelling at each other), would not even notice the transition. Those who DO care ( and again it is their right so stop yelling at those people as we owe WAY TOO MUCH to the "zealots") could be happy by choosing to use only free software.