[LINK] What happens when an OS becomes successful?

[Eleanor Lister]

Avi Miller wrote:
>
> On 28/05/2007, at 10:55 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
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>> I don't have a copy of Unbuntu (Gnome desktop).
>
> Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) ships with Firefox, including the Mozilla
> trademarked logo. I assume Ubuntu/Canonical are meeting the terms of
> the Mozilla licence, which means they can't make any code changes to
> Firefox and keep calling it Firefox (or at least, keep using the
> trademarked logo).

i use exactly that combination, and as far as i can see, 3 effects occur:

1) because they realise a new distro every 6 months, Canonical don't
upgrade shells and packages except for bug fixes until the next version,
so Firework will never have a security path un-applied for the version
they supply with that distro, but may not have the latest and greatest
features.

2) the version in the Ubuntu repositories seems to be pre-configured to
work with default media players like Mplayer.

3) the last few distros the upgrade is good enough it mostly preserves
the application configs.

i don't see where any of this calls for changes to the code, so i think
there is no GPL problem here.

regards,
    EL

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