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If you released a pay-for firefox then everyone would just start using iceweasel which could still happen if the ads get too annoying.
by jiggy2011 12y ago
If you released a pay-for firefox then everyone would just start using iceweasel which could still happen if the ads get too annoying.
- TheZenPsycho 12y agoJust as people could install ubuntu and "just use wine" if they want to run windows programs without paying for windows.
- jiggy2011 12y agoI think iceweasel is much closer to firefox than wine is to windows!
- TheZenPsycho 12y agothat was not my point.
- coldtea 12y agoYes, but the analogy you tried to make does not justify any other.
- TheZenPsycho 12y agoThe analogy was about ease of use and well known-ness. To suggest casually that people would en masse switch to ice weasel points to a kind of tone deafness.
- zobzu 12y agoif you paid for a pay for firefox, the ads would still be there, since the ads don't come from firefox (to this day, firefox is still ad-free except for the default search engine setting)
- kijin 12y agoIf Mozilla ever releases a paid version of Firefox, I'm sure they'll also keep an ad-supported version for people who don't want to pay. And thus we return to the glorious days of "shareware" and ad-supported "free trials".