May 20, 2003

LindowsOS 4.0 == mozilla

I just ran across this LindowsOS 4.0 announcement which lists 10 reasons that Lindows is better than winXP. Three of those ten reasons (maybe four) appear to be the Mozilla application suite, more specifically Mozilla's tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking and junk-mail controls. They somehow managed to advertise three very cool Mozilla features without once mentioning Mozilla. From reading the press release, one would have to assume that those were all OS features. Well, good for them, I guess.

udate:I guess my comments weren't very explicit so this is a clarification. I don't think there's anything wrong with a company taking our (or any other) open source project and rebranding it for distribution. As a matter of fact, I think that's great.

It just seemed a little odd that in describing why it was such a great operating system he described Mozilla features without identifying them as browser features. They've made several edits on the page and now at least it's more explicite that they're talking about browser and email features. They also adjusted some of the images :-)

Chris Blizzard, in his weblog, said it pretty well, "frankly anything that gets our code into more hands is fine by me. It's just hard for my Ego not to feel just a tiny bit slighted."

Posted by asa at 11:42 PM

 

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