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Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Mozilla anger over Dell Firefox fee
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Mozilla is investigating reports that Dell is charging users with new computers to install the Firefox browser.

One user told the Register website that he had been asked to pay £16.25 to have the browser installed.

Firefox is a free, open-source piece of software that can be installed by anyone in about 10 minutes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26465203
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla anger over Dell Firefox fee
Yes but if Dell install it beforehand on an individual basis then they should be able to charge for it. Though I would get pretty angry if I had to pay to install it myself.
Author:  big_D [ Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla anger over Dell Firefox fee
It is open source, that means that they can't charge for Firefox itself, but they can charge for services based around it, such as installing.

That said, installing it once and making it part of an image that gets installed on selected machines is going to work out at pence per machine.
Author:  rustybucket [ Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla anger over Dell Firefox fee
big_D wrote:
It is open source, that means that they can't charge for Firefox itself, but they can charge for services based around it, such as installing.

Software being open-source doesn't mean one cannot charge for it.

The reason this fee is a problem is that Mozilla have a condition that says
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You may distribute unchanged official binaries (i.e., the installer file available for download for each platform (code + config) and not the program executable) downloaded from http://www.mozilla.com or http://www.mozilla.org to anyone in any way, subject to governing law, without receiving any further permission from Mozilla. If you want to distribute the unchanged official binaries using the Mozilla Marks, you may do so, without receiving any further permission from Mozilla, as long as you comply with this Trademark Policy and you distribute them without charge.
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