Re: Ugly firefox icon

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 19:28, Paul Johnson wrote:
> David P James <dpjames@rogers.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, another consequence of Mozilla.org and especially Firefox's 
> > newfound focus on Windows users. Since Microsoft is unlikely to 
> > distribute a copy of Firefox (much less modify it) with Windows, the 
> > notion of others distributing it, as Debian and other Linux 
> > distributions do, is largely below the radar of those in charge. I 
> > believe the maintainer tried to secure permission to use the icon but 
> > couldn't. He was lucky to be able to use the name "Firefox" from what I 
> > recall.
> 
> Oh, geeze, did Mozilla drink the kool aid?

Hook line and sinker: "brand protection" (or was that 'brand management'
- I don't remember), "don't want to confuse the users", etc, etc.

Rather sad really...