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1. Comment - Mozilla in hot water over use of EULA in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

   (Sep 18, 2008 - 3:03 PM)

   As I understand it, an End User License Agreement is designed by a company to ensure that their product 1. remains intact; 2. the company recieves the credit; and 3. that the company reserves to its self all rights and priveldges except what they give to thu user. As I understand it, Ubuntu is a free, Linux based operating system that the user is allowed to change, modify, decompile, and generally try to improve and personalize. These stated, one has to wonder why a company such as Mozilla, which reserves its rights unto its self, would release its product for use in Ubuntu, and still desire to retain her rights to the same. If you donate a program to a free OS package, knowing that it may be decompiled and reassenbled by the user to the users own tastes, then why the EULA? It would be like giving a child a piece of candy, then telling him that he cannot eat it without your permission. It goes against the nature of the thing in question. So hey, if Mozilla desires to retain her rights, then pull it from the realm of freeware; if not, then remove the EULA, and surrender her rights to the same, as far as the Ubuntu release is concerned.