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Re: RFS: icecat



Hello,

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:11:10 +0200
Javier Sancho <jsf@jsancho.org> wrote:

> Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
> > i) What's the point of it, how is it different from Iceweasel?

> The goal of the IceCat project is to provide a completely free version
> of the popular Mozilla source code.

Iceweasel is already free, isn't it?

> It is (so far the only) part of Gnuzilla, the umbrella project
> analogous to Mozilla. The base Mozilla code is free but it supports
> and suggests using non-free plugins and other modules. GNU IceCat is
> completely free, and suggests only free plugins to users.

It's not about freedom, it's about limiting it for the users. Users
must be free to install non-free extensions and plug-ins if they want
to.

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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