Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Feb 2009 12:44 UTC
Recently it became known that the European Union is charging Microsoft with anticompetitive behaviour concerning its Internet Explorer web browser. The EU is considering forcing OEMs to offer consumers a choice of browser. Opera responded quite positively to these events, and now Mozilla has responded as well: they fully support the EU.
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RE[2]: This is ridiculous
by pantheraleo on Tue 10th Feb 2009 15:39
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Member since:2007-03-07
> In neither is the browser an integrated part of the
> os.
Konqueror is an integrated part of KDE. Maybe the EU should force the KDE project to remove the dependencies and give users a choice when they first start it?
Do you see the problem with letting the government dictate this kind of thing now? It's a slippery slope that can easily get out of control.
Edited 2009-02-10 15:44 UTC
RE[3]: This is ridiculous
by dmantione on Tue 10th Feb 2009 16:35
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Member since:2005-07-06
KDE <> Novell, Red Hat, Mandriva
Novell, Red Hat, Mandriva and so on already ship multiple browsers (that they have searched on the free market by the way). They don't need to be forced because they already do so. None of these companies has a dominant position either.
RE[3]: This is ridiculous
by Jokel on Tue 10th Feb 2009 21:30
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Member since:2006-06-01
RE[3]: This is ridiculous
by lemur2 on Tue 10th Feb 2009 22:05
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Member since:2007-02-17
Konqueror is an integrated part of KDE. Maybe the EU should force the KDE project to remove the dependencies and give users a choice when they first start it? Do you see the problem with letting the government dictate this kind of thing now? It's a slippery slope that can easily get out of control.
Konqueror can easily be removed from KDE. Removing it un-installs 3 packages, which amount to the brwoser itself and some additional things such as the konqueror-to-flash-plugin connector.
I'm not sure when it happened, it was possibly made so with the introduction of KDE 4, but the argument you use above is no longer true. Konqueror is now a typical, and easily removeable, KDE 4 desktop application, and it is not part of the OS.
In fact, having removed Konqueror, there is then no web browser in a KDE installation. One can move from that state to having another browser installed, say Firefox, simply by using a package manager (Synaptic, yum apt-get, aptitude, urpmi or whatever your distribution uses) to install it. With KDE, you don't need a browser to install a browser.
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In neither is the browser an integrated part of the os.