Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Dec 2008 10:24 UTC
Most of the attention has been going to Microsoft and its Internet Explorer web browser for having a severe zero-day security hole fixed, but Microsoft wasn't the only one hastily fixing its browser. Both Mozilla as well as Opera had to issue quick patches to fix several security flaws in their browsers.
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RE[2]: Comment by Kroc - because it is an EULA
by jabbotts on Thu 18th Dec 2008 13:35
in reply to "RE: Comment by Kroc"
Member since:2007-09-06
The General Public License is an end user license so treating it like any other EULA is not too strange. The difference is that the GPL lists a bunch of things that users and developers may do provided they remain within the broad boundaries of the license where the traditional consumer EULA is a long legal document detailing what one is not allowed to do.
Permissive versus oppressive.
An example is comparing Mandriva's EULA to Mirosoft's:
Mandriva:
- you can do this
- you can do this
- you can do this
- thank you for trying our distribution
Microsoft:
- you can't do this
- you can't do this
- you can't do this
- we can do this without warning
- we can do this without warning
- we can do this without warning
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2005-11-10
New with Firefox 3.0.5 is the about:rights page that does away with the EULA when you install Firefox for the first time.
This is an excellent move by Mozilla that I applaud!