Upgrading to Firefox 2.0?

[Mike Kallies]

On 11/5/06, David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 04/11/06, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Does anyone in the TLUG Great Collective Mind  have a pointer to
> > step-by-step instructions for upgrading to Firefox 2.0 on (Suse) Linux?
>
> (in light of recent IP hostage taking developments)
> step 1) back up all data
> step 2) remove MSuSE, reformat partitions
> step 3) install any non USPTO entangled operating system, relocate data
> step 4) install Firefox 2.0 as per distro instructions.

Any patent abuses would extend beyond SuSE and into all other distros.
 The GPL and the Linux marketplace won't let MS use patents
destructively.

Besides, not to imply that Microsoft is not evil, but does anyone have
any examples of Microsoft ever abusing their patent portfolio?  Or
even Microsoft using lawsuits aggressively?


-Mike
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists