Comment 442 for bug 269656

I would have to respectfully disagree with Dragonlord; i believe that there is a large continuum of the freedom of software, akin to many things. Mozilla is a lot freer than many other web browsers out there, and they deserve props for that.

However, forcing what amounts to a EULA on the end users is simply not a good idea, as the vast majority of them have no intention of changing a single byte of code of Firefox and distributing it. Therefore, as posted by Dave Morley, I think a simple message bar would suffice, as it gives Mozilla a legal leg to stand on without annoying end users.

I can't say that I've ever disagreed with Mr. Shuttleworth's decisions, in fact, he has come up with compromises that I did not. That being said, I don't consider myself a Shuttleworth fan aside from the fact that his previous leadership and business insight leads me to believe that he will make the best commercial decision for Canonical - to not annoy end users. I'm sure there will be a compromise, and all (most) parties will be content. Mozilla seems to have been a little overzealous with their defense of their logo (see: Debian IceWeasel browser), and seem to be backing down over the outcry. In my mind, that is exactly what a beta release is for, to flesh out bugs, mistakes, and mis-features before they get released into the wild.

The journey to solve bug #1 continues with the small step of removing an intrusive and largely irrelevant EULA.