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5 Reasons to Support IceWeasel
Published October 14th, 2006 in All Categories, Firefox Clones, IceWeasel
Furthermore, they don’t want the Firefox name being used without the appropriate artwork. 
There’s probably two reasons for this:
1. Mozilla doesn’t want to be affiliated with bad forks of their software (which they have no control over).
2. Mozilla doesn’t want to lose the Firefox trademark if it ever becomes a generic trademark (like when people say Photoshopping when talking about editing images or Googling when they mean searching).
This becomes a bigger problem when certain groups distribute modified versions of Mozilla’s software but keeping the Firefox name without Mozilla’s trademarked logo. Debian has recently got in trouble for this and Mozilla presented two options:
1. Don’t use the Firefox name so that the versions aren’t affiliated with Mozilla.
2. Pass all custom patches through Mozilla and then use the version that Mozilla supplies - along with the trademarked logo. Brian McKenna Weblog » 5 Reasons to Support IceWeasel
