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jwz: Mozilla is an advertising company now (www.jwz.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla's Original Sin

Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Which it is, and I hate it, but you’re exactly right.

And beyond that, this is also not Mozilla's decision. A browser-making company is not the one to ask to fix digital media copyright and its enforcement. Talk to you elected personel if you want to fix that, and/or get into politics yourself and fix it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Bingo