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by jakobe 4482 days ago
But what about "Fair Use"? Just owning a trademark doesn't give you the right to forbid other people using it. It's pretty clear from the wording that Dell is offering to install third party software. I'm pretty sure this doesn't violate the trademark, and I don't think Mozilla's policies apply in this case.

A violation of the trademark would be if Dell installed a custom fork of Firefox and called it "Firefox".

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It's clear that you do not understand the legal issues here. Then again... it's clear that MOST people commenting here do not understand the law.

Dell is in CLEAR violation here. This is not really an arguable point. The questions really are:

a - why did Dell do something SO fking stupid? b - what is Mozilla going to do about it?

I suspect there are some emergency high level meetings going on at Dell right now.

Please explain why Dell is clearly violating the trademark. Just saying it's CLEAR (in capital letters) is not a sound argument.