Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Oct 2006 20:50 UTC, submitted by Stuart Langridge
In the latest episode of LugRadio, Eric S. Raymond suggests that the Linux community need to start integrating more proprietary software in order to get market share. ESR points to proprietary multimedia codecs as an example of somewhere where Linux distributions should step away from free-software rhetoric in order to get more users, with the aim of bringing those users back to open source later on and to gain more influence with manufacturers and music/movie/media distributors to make Linux a properly supported platform.
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2005-07-08
FSF thinks Firefox is proprietary and not free:
The developers note that the official binaries on mozilla.org are definitely proprietary; they contain additional freedom-subtracted software (talkback functionality, artwork, etc) therefore only the source tarball is free software.
What's wrong with stating the fact?
Talkback is propreitary. It is stated so in "Firefox FAQ" published by mozilla.org, not by me. Even if we are to ignore the artwork problem (which we shouldn't), it's plain truth that mozilla.org Windows binary of Firefox is propreitary software.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#talkback