Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat browser default on Windows 7?

[awakeyet]

THIS! 10/10 all the way. devs wasting precious time and resources working on any windows software does nothing to help anyone in any way. we would all be insulting our own intelligence and our principles, the very purpose of icecat; to consider further enabling people to have a false sense of security while using the very software that is one of the main driving forces behind the reason why software's like icecat are even created in the first place. the contradiction! the hypocracy! I invite all people of the world to use FOSS linux software on FOSH hardware with a great browser like Gnu IceCat so that they may comfortably step across the bridge from a sinking ship to a paradigm shift!

"No, I do not. Please enlighten us. When was the last time a major tech company 
exec went to jail or prison over an obvious computer crime, like when $ony 
rooted millions of PCs? Was anyone ever indicted even? With their game 
consoles, Micro$oft routinely takes pictures of naked teenagers and sends them 
over the internet, without their knowledge or informed consent, what is up 
with that? Clearly, this is an invasion of privacy and an illegal porn 
production, so what is being done about it?

Please stop the nonsense. Your analogies are awful and misleading. if icecat 
is a band-aid, then you are asking us to put it on a brain tumor. Yes, I would 
refuse to distribute GNU-branded band-aids to brain tumor patients, while 
claiming they help, even though some may slap them on their foreheads and feel 
better due to a placebo effect. What these people need is an invasive, but 
life-saving operation. Once the windoze tumor is removed, it makes sense 
applying a band-aid.

Once again, I am not in principle against building icecat for nonfree 
platforms such as windoze, but please get a grip. It is next to useless. 
Either kindly contribute a build, or stop pestering the developers, who 
already have more work than they can handle."



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29. Dec 2016 13:06 by address@hidden:

> On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 21:37:31 Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > I doubt Microsoft would risk taking screenshots of employee's computers at
> > Fortune 500 companies. Do you know how dangerously illegal that is?
>
> No, I do not. Please enlighten us. When was the last time a major tech company 
> exec went to jail or prison over an obvious computer crime, like when $ony 
> rooted millions of PCs? Was anyone ever indicted even? With their game 
> consoles, Micro$oft routinely takes pictures of naked teenagers and sends them 
> over the internet, without their knowledge or informed consent, what is up 
> with that? Clearly, this is an invasion of privacy and an illegal porn 
> production, so what is being done about it?
>
> Please stop the nonsense. Your analogies are awful and misleading. if icecat 
> is a band-aid, then you are asking us to put it on a brain tumor. Yes, I would 
> refuse to distribute GNU-branded band-aids to brain tumor patients, while 
> claiming they help, even though some may slap them on their foreheads and feel 
> better due to a placebo effect. What these people need is an invasive, but 
> life-saving operation. Once the windoze tumor is removed, it makes sense 
> applying a band-aid.
>
> Once again, I am not in principle against building icecat for nonfree 
> platforms such as windoze, but please get a grip. It is next to useless. 
> Either kindly contribute a build, or stop pestering the developers, who 
> already have more work than they can handle.