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Firefox is a brand present in a highly competitive market. It's a brand known by consumers who are used to associate a name and a logo to an experience and can
by martius 11y ago
Firefox is a brand present in a highly competitive market. It's a brand known by consumers who are used to associate a name and a logo to an experience and can easily get confused (such as people seeing the "blue E icon" as the way to "start google" for instance).
Mozilla protected more agressively its Firefox brand to cope with malware-stuffed clones which were hijacking the name.
Projects such as VLC or Android protect their brand too, Chrome is only available through official closed-source builds, many linux distributions only package chromium.
- ajsalminen 11y agoI am aware of the reasoning they might have for this and was mostly asking about the parent's claim that Firefox is legally obligated to do this. VLC is still gets packaged by Debian as VLC and even branding intact I believe. Chrome is a little different since you can't even build it so Debian's interest in including it instead of Chromium isn't probably all that high anyway.