"P.B." pb@fsfe.org writes:
Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
It depends on who you're talking to.
Windows+Firefox is better than Windows+IE, but it's always worth mentioning that they can have complete freedom with GNU/Linux and IceCat.
I use IceCat. It's works grand, and I trust the project manager (more than I do for Firefox).
Unfortunately, there are 2 things which might make icecat a no-go for many people:
- I can't find it (or iceweasel) in the default ubuntu repositories.
- As far as I've read, it doesn't support nonfree-flashplugin - only
gnash. That's a killer.
People who have no problem adding non-Free Software to their browser probably don't care that much about having a complete free operating system and/or browser. So they are probably not the main target group of IceCat.
Beside i want to mention that afaik using Firefox doesn't mean using non-Free Software necessarily. Afaik only the binaries you get from Mozilla contains non-Free Software like Talkback but you can build a complete free Firefox from the sources. E.g. Fedora distributes Firefox and they are committed to distribute only Free Software (with an exception for Firmware though)[1]. So i'm quite sure that their Firefox doesn't have any non-Free blobs.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines
best wishes, Björn