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where does it says that?

where does it says that?

Posted Aug 12, 2009 6:39 UTC (Wed) by hppnq (guest, #14462)
In reply to: where does it says that? by sbergman27
Parent article: Ubuntu removes "multisearch"

People who care about being anonymous have plenty of options. No distribution can not ship Firefox. No distribution can not provide an interface to Google.

But also, no distribution wants to ship with Tor enabled or even included by default. Why? Because 1) in some environments you may have to explain why you need this and 2) because it doesn't solve the problem at all. Or do you trust your ISP?

Face it. You're on CCTV. This is not at all about privacy, it is about trust.


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where does it says that?

Posted Aug 12, 2009 7:32 UTC (Wed) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

Ah, ENOCOFFEE, commented on the wrong comment. Sorry.

where does it says that?

Posted Aug 13, 2009 4:19 UTC (Thu) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136) [Link]

> No distribution can not ship Firefox.

Actually, there's isn't really any compelling reason for a distribution to ship "Firefox". Arch and Debian, for instance, don't ship "Firefox"; they ship Shiretoko and Iceweasel (respectively) instead.

where does it says that?

Posted Aug 13, 2009 12:34 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

The point was: people want to actually use software. The beauty of Free Software is not that we can all browse or search the Internet anonymously, it is that there are distributions like Incognito.

I owe you the link, I am afraid to google it. ;-)

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