Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released [LWN.net]

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

Posted Jun 16, 2004 13:25 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released by darthmdh
Parent article: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released

I don't see a notice on their page "If you don't like something, you have the source, fix it yourself."
That's because it's implicit with the definition of Open Source software.
My point is that this is all very well if the target audience is programmers (as is the case for GNU Emacs). The target audience for a web browser is most certainly not programmers.
Drastic measures were taken with 0.9 to ensure that the entire Firefox release remains completely open source, including the removal of the proprietary Qute theme.
FYI, the Firefox logo is itself proprietary (trademarked by the Mozilla foundation) and they don't allow using it on non-official builds. This became a big issue with the Debian project, for instance. Debian now uses a different icon for firefox, which has no connection with Mozilla at all.

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