Lair of the Wolf

Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise

Seriously, why would it not be?

Yes, I know, I'm late to the game.. and out of practice at blogging these days. Just wanted to get my own opinion out, since self-expression makes me feel all fuzzy....

So, yay, now we apparently have Icedove and IceWeasel (which for the sake of being anal and annoying must have a capital W in it. otherwise, hey, somebody might not realize what they're reading.) Sure, its completely free, as in freedom software. but then again, so is Bon Echo. (Firefox without the --enable-official-branding switch, you know, the thing Debian broke to make their problem worse).
The big problem here, isn't trademarks or patches, its a battle of egos. Mozilla (the Corporation, enforcer of all things trademarked.) is certainly taking a hard line stance. (To use the Firefox name (and its logo) you must be releasing something that we can certify meets the quality of "Firefox", which is an official designation for the software.) Other distros apparently do this successfully, but they aren't concerned about protecting themselves from every straw-man and mythical big-bad corporation beast that's (supposedly) determined to make their life harder.

Debian of course, is too good to have to ask permission for anything, or even make their patch set readable or answer straight questions about what the patches are they really are applying, avoiding it with (they came from bugzilla. and no more details about why.) and try to make it all about the evils of wanting patches included in something named Firefox approved.

I think its probably more about wanting to know why Debian builds with their included patchset, are far more buggy and cause users of them way more headaches than the Mozilla-released equivilent. Its those problems that led Mozilla to push Debian, to give details of those patches, or stop using the Firefox name, since it makes users think that Firefox itself, sucks, and not the distro provided packages.
So, let them rebrand IceWeasel, and include those patches, IceWeasel will of course suck as bad as the current Debian Fox builds do. Hopefully, somebody else will step-up and provide a base unbranded (or branded even, it shouldn't be hard.) Bon Echo or Deer Park build for Debian distros so that its users, (who aren't all FS zealots, i'm sure.) have an option to vote no to IceWeasel, and Ubuntu finds a better way independently of all this mess, like actually working with Mozilla and finding common ground and understanding. Instead of snobbish elitism and a nice big fork.
Oh, and the Mozilla side, should just let it go. If Debian wants to fork, let them, Firefox itself was a fork. As-is Flock, and Netscape 8. So what's one more, ignoring the politics?

And yes, Stephen Colbert is in the Firefox 2 credits.. Policital play? PR move? Nah, just a joke.. (I don't think its funny, but then again, I might if I actually /liked/ him.) Go find the name and tell your friends or something.

Oh yeah, Firefox 2 RC3 was released, go download it, poke at it and give feedback.

Things... Big events... Little events.. One liners, even.. Haunt me, weeks, months, even years later... Even if I wasn't wrong. and much more if I was.
I catch myself thinking about them, when I'm not doing anything else, or just laying down and thinking. I try to put them to rest, and let things go, but when it comes down to it, they don't go away. If I get angry or hurt or depressed they reappear.
Currently, i'm feeling pretty bitter. I don't know exactly why. I feel like I made a fair contribution back there, but get no credit whatsoever for it now. I was taught not to ask for credit and just expect it to be given if its deserved. Am I supposed to take it if I deserve it and not wait around for somebody else to do it? Because at the moment, two of my best accomplishments to date, which I won't name, (which I guess continues the cycle, doesn't it?), don't feel like I had anything at all to do with them, and I don't feel like anybody around me really wants to reach out and say anything. With one of them, this makes sense, its been taken over by other people, who've continued the growth I had a large part in starting. The other, its just been taken over, and ransacked like a town without a government.
I don't think I'm better than other people at all, I'm not more mature, I do have a different point of view and a very hard time reaching out and being social with other people, since I'm quite afraid of them. I'm not good at standing up for myself, except angrily. I just want people to see me as an individual who they want to talk to, to be with, and maybe even be friends with. :-/
Bah...