gNewSense - New Linux Distro... What were they thinking?

[stscac]

I don't know how many of you here actively use a Linux distro, but I'm an avid user of Fedora Core. With the late popularity of Ubuntu, Desktop linux has been gaining ground. But some modules in Ubuntu were restricted due to proprietary software.

To make a long story short, the FSF (Free Software Foundation) is makign available a new distro called gNewSense. They renamed Firefox to IceWeasel since the Firefox logo (not the globe) is trademarked.

But the only thing I can think of I see and hear the name is nuisance. And in my opinion that's a bad way to promote a new distro.

Read the full article here.

-Steve

 

[apexad]

IceWeasel? That's pretty creative! Almost as creative, as oh say, Firefox. However, I do agree, this is a dumb move. I understand that they don't want trademarked stuff, but this is going a little far.

 

[Joe]

:lol:

this is quite riddiculous

Joe