Frozen Rodent
No I didn’t find a dead squirrel and keep it in my freezer, later to be revived with my special … reanimator serum… um where was I…Oh yes Ice weasel was what I’m discussing. Ice weasel is a new GNU product. Basically they’ve taken the code from fire fox.. get it fire = element = ice; fox = mammal? = weasel, and turned it completely ‘free’. the folks at gnu.org actually explain the naming better. Anywho its taken the opensource code of firefox and stripped it of its naughty unfree clothing. Though Firefox’s code is free it turns out that the logo and several programs it has integrated are anything but free, and now there is a completely free version avaible, enter the weasel of ice.
Where does this leave us, the end user? Split between an ethical cause and the accessibility of firefox. Well at this point Ice weasel is still being developed so there may be more reason later than merely slight ethics. If Iceweasel provides what it hopes it will allow communities the ability to really use the source code for their own good. So there may be enough people interested to really add some nice additions to the app.