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Mele: About Google Desktop Search

Thank you. That was an interesting read. Now I better understand VirtualLarry comment. I can see where if you have a lot of information stored on your computer and use IE that this Google tool could be useful.
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Re: Mozilla Firefox Requires EULA??

There should be no trademark issues. There are 50-something-odd seperately-recognized federal trademark "classes". As long as the company in question's trademark usage falls into one of those classes, and does not infringe on another's, then they can legally co-exist. The "Firefox" company that you linked to, appears to be a pyrotechnics mail-order firm, surely that would not conflict with a software company of the same name.

That was one of the biggest problems when the internet (IANA, I think, maybe NSF) allowed commercial organizations onboard, because there are no trademark-class distinctions in the domain-name scheme as there are in US trademark law. It was never meant for that, and as the subsequent early domain-name lawsuits showed, it was basically on a collision-course from the moment that such a thing was allowed on the internet. IMHO, there should have been a seperate .tm or .tm.com or ..tm TLD, to avoid the horrible mess that the lawyers made of commercial domain-names. '.com', as a singular flat commercial global namespace, never should have existed.

VirtualLarry , I think you and I might be the only two people on the planet who give a damn about this Moz EULA !

While I got couple of thumbs-up from well-known folks here, posted comments in support of our concerns have been few. And the usual paranoid Slashdot crowd has been silent. (Although my first inkling of this issue was on an older Slashdot thread.)

Anyhow, when I mentioned .ZIP I was referring to the zipped BINARY distribution, which does not include source code but ALSO omits the EULA as far as I know. So does the EULA apply?

As to compiling from source, again, the EULA clearly says it applies to anyone INSTALLING OR USING THE MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER". So I'm just guessing that if your sources compile to anything called "the Mozilla Firefox Browser", then bam, you're under the EULA!

As to the Google connection, I don't really give a damn as long as everything's above board -- I like both entities. (Until recently that would have read "love".)

To Mele20 -- the Mozilla suite does NOT have the needless Google search address bar taking up space (at least as of 1.7.) Another reason I like it better than the Fireweasel these days.

To hpguru -- I agree with the other folks -- with all the name change brouhaha, which I think was driven almost entirely by trademark concerns, I would be quite surprised if they did NOT have every right they needed to the name Fireweasel. I believe they announced as much when they unveiled the new name.

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", I think you and I might be the only two people on the planet who give a damn about this Moz EULA !"

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Some of us just read the posts.

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The Firefox search bar is highly configurable and can be easily removed (and restored) in a few seconds.

With the Hide SearchBar Extension (link in my Extension list post above), the SearchBar (containing as few, or as many Searches as one adds to it) poofs away, and poofs back with each Control-Shift-S (1/4 sec, perhaps).
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