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TheZenPsycho
on May 11, 2014
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Just as people could install ubuntu and "just use wine" if they want to run windows programs without paying for windows.
jiggy2011
on May 11, 2014
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I think iceweasel is much closer to firefox than wine is to windows!
TheZenPsycho
on May 12, 2014
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that was not my point.
coldtea
on May 12, 2014
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Yes, but the analogy you tried to make does not justify any other.
TheZenPsycho
on May 12, 2014
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The 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.
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