Fedora Developers Discussing About Dropping Firefox

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Fedora Developers Discussing About Dropping Firefox

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Silviu Stahie wrote:"Showing ads does not make Firefox nonfree. The only reason we should completely remove Firefox from Fedora is if it starts shipping nonfree or patent-encumbered code -- like the Cisco binary that just recently got removed, or that EME module from Adobe that they're planning to include -- in such a way that is difficult or impossible to strip out. We should stick with Firefox for the time being, and simply disable the ad feature one way or another," said Michael Catanzaro in a message on the Fedora mailing list.
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