{"id":171,"date":"2007-10-19T07:43:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T05:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.glandium.org\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:52:29","slug":"gobuntu-and-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Gobuntu and Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember, a while ago, Mark Shuttleworth announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-devel-announce\/2007-April\/000276.html\">there would be a 100% free version of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ubuntu 7.10 will feature a new flavour - as yet unnamed - which takes an ultra-orthodox view of licensing: no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full source materials and come with full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/archives\/130\">learned it would be named Gobuntu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2007\/10\/18\/gobuntu-has-already-failed\">they didn't quite follow their promise<\/a>. Yes, Gobuntu includes Firefox, making it a pretty useless failed attempt.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I'm still amazed so many people believe it was all about the trademarks.  For them, I'll quote something <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=97\">I wrote a year ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trademark and copyright are different things. Mozilla\u00c2\u00ae has unnecessarily given a non-free license to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clarify\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the trademark situation, but that is not required. To make it clear: Debian thinks the logos are not free because they are not free. Period.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm glad at least <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2007\/10\/18\/gobuntu-has-already-failed\">Mark Pilgrim got it right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> And as seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.mozilla.org\/\">Planet Mozilla<\/a>, Robert Sayre obviously still <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.com\/rob-sayre\/2007\/10\/18\/dive-into-flames\/\">hasn't understood the issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember, a while ago, Mark Shuttleworth announced that there would be a 100% free version of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon : Ubuntu 7.10 will feature a new flavour &#8211; as yet unnamed &#8211; which takes an ultra-orthodox view of licensing: no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-pdo","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}