I was reading Slashdot today and came across another article about the upcoming fork of Firefox, called IceWeasel. This article, much like the other articles with an anti-IceWeasel viewpoint, is chock-full of logical failings and trollish flame bait. read more | digg story

Interview with the GNU Developers involved in the new firefox-based IceWeasel. The interview is about the future of IceWeasel, new features, and the differences between Debian/Ubuntu and Mozilla Foundation. Also in Spanish (http://navegadores.org/entrevista-a-los-desarrolladores-de- iceweasel) read more | digg story

The Linux community splits off from Firefox and starts using IceWeasel, causing further fragmentation and confusion. read more | digg story

There have been a lot of rumours, trolling and flamewars about the proposed name-change of Firefox to “Iceweasel” for Debian Etch. This post by FF/IW Debian maintainer Mike Hommey straightens out some of the wilder claims/accusations that have been made, and confirms that Etch’s Iceweasel will be vanilla Firefox®, save for the change of name. [...]

Comments on why the competition between Firefox and IceWeasel won’t cause any harm to the open source movement in general. read more | digg story

The author argues why the recent IceWeazel vs Firefox, saga will have a negative impact on Open Source, because it sets a bad precedent which may discourage companies such as Sun to open source Java. read more | digg story

The Debian fork of IceWeasel does nothing but hurt FireFox development for little or no reason. read more | digg story

Some people from GNU have forked a version of Firefox and have called it IceWeasel, they also made a few small security fixes while doing so. Great solution, right? Some people think not. Well, I ’m going to try and persuade them right now. Here’s five reasons to support (and use) IceWeasel. read more | digg story

IceWeasel is a version of Firefox created for use in “free” operating systems like Debian (and its derivatives, such as Ubuntu), which eschew any element that can’t be freely reused by anyone, for any reason. Iceweasel was developed because Firefox and the Firefox logo are trademarked. read more | digg story

Gnutella, part of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU Project, is creating “the ‘GNU/Linux’ version of same, to be dubbed ‘IceWeasel.’” This may, or may not, become the logo-free version of Firefox that Debian will ship in its next distribution. read more | digg story