Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks

Posted Sep 26, 2006 19:25 UTC (Tue) by jpick (guest, #29470)
Parent article: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks

Hey, if I patch my version of Firefox, I'm still going to call it Firefox, because it is.

But according to this, if I try to distribute my patched version online (calling it Firefox + my patches), I can expect legal threats? That's not very nice, IMHO.

I don't really understand this whole Mozilla Foundation / Mozilla Corporation thing. Somehow they are making a lot of money off a free piece of software. I'm not so sure I trust the motives behind this.

If anything, Firefox needs a lot more people tearing it apart, cleaning up the code, and experimenting with it. I use it everywhere, but it's got some major useability and architectural problems, still.