Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can’t watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?
#opensource #firefox #mozilla
Stop with this bullshit FUD. For fucks sake, I thought foss communities were smarter than Republicans who fall for the same old shit every single fucking time. Clearly I was mistaken.
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Only a sociopath can take millions from unpaid open source contributors and security researchers. When your wealth is derived from others’ poverty it creates sociopathy in those that scramble over their fellow workers to climb to the top. Even the university tenure process trains teachers and students to exploit anyone beneath them. Survival of the greediest.
@smeg@assortedflotsam.com@nixCraft@mastodon.social Yesterday, I tried to help a friend by looking up a kitchen appliance on the Sur La Table web site to see if they carried the product. A few minutes later, I got some spam from some nonentity calling itself surlatable@safeopt.com thanking me for “checking us out.” I had not logged in and Firefox was configure to delete cookies when it closes.
I put both on my shit list: what would you do if visited a store and they had someone follow you home and put trash in your mailbox?
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Good bye Firefox. Switching to Brave.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social It’s mediocre thinkers of the sort you see embedded in the bowels of every large enterprise elevated into the stewardship of something they don’t understand.
They’re the sort of people locked into the orthodoxy of what others are doing — not looking for the best, simplest, or easiest routes forward but rather the safest routes forward — the same ones everyone else is pursuing.
They squandered Mozilla’s unique position and can’t fathom why they’re locked into this perpetual decline.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Think of it as “The precession of the perihelion of marketing.” Leadership inexplicably is never where the (classic) theory says it’s supposed to be…
@mozillaofficial@mastodon.social and other social/capital hybrids making big wonky loops again and again in plain sight reveal something more general that’s too low-level to be seen with the naked eye…
…That our theories of value, incentive, growth, and wealth need fundamental, alienating rewriting. That’s happening, though we forget today’s store-brand Relativity took many decades of uncertainty, this will too.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Ahah bad timing for this 😂.
FYI, Sylvestre from Mozilla replied on HN:
“Please don’t read too much into this ;) We moved from self-hosted Discourse to hosted Discourse. The transfer was initiated late from the Mozilla side (my bad) and the automatic system from Discourse kicked in.”
@dannycolin@floss.social thank you for the heads up! regardless of that they are pushing AI and selling data et all are bad move.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social @dannycolin@floss.social Ai in itself is fine. Local LLM translation in Firefox is really good and I’d take it over Google Translate any time. If Mozilla is planning on adding local LLM summary of webpages, fine. If they train it on their own systems and not on user’s I’m fine with it.
Firefox is the only browser that still gives us flexibility with about:config. Don’t like the Labs panel? You can turn it off. Don’t like this or that? You can turn it off. They just need to fix their communication.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social It reminds me of what happened with Unity 3D some years ago.
Billion dollars from google, being funded 90% by google.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Firefox lost a long time ago, but had guaranteed income from the search-ads deals. They tried many things over the years to create another revenue source but failed.
I heard from a Mozilla insider that regulatory changes (from even before the current administration) will make those search-ads deals illegal. Which is kind of a good thing but now the org is facing its end and dissolving in predictable ways
@nixCraft@mastodon.social capitalism never works, learnt the hard way
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Any advice on a new browser with useful add-ons?@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Easy explanation: Once Chrome became good enough, the Google contract changed to “here’s $$$$$, make Firefox irrelevant”.
