Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don't need my money any more.
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#12While i do think mozilla is great, firefox is my main browser and i am following the servo project. Just recently we had this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630996 edit: @FooBarWidget had a good answer
Sorry, mistakenly downvoted :|
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#13Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don't need my money any more.
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#14Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don't need my money any more.
This is the reason i stopped donating to them.
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#15Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don't need my money any more.
I don't keep up too much, so what basic civic engagement issues have they acted on since the one highly publicized incident? A browser like Mozilla, and its place in the market, is overtly political in itself. It always has been; open source is politics. Heck, dozens of major OSS projects have the "don't donate to us, donate to our sponsored charity" thing going on. Those projects focus on very liberal, social justice issues too though with a more global focus.
But, what's happened since the one incident?
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#16Wikipedia and Mozilla are great products so I donate once a year for both projects.
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#17Their FAQ ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Donate#Don.27t_Mozilla_products.2C_... ) contains pretty important information. In particular, it answers why one should donate when Mozilla Corp makes money through corporate deals (e.g. Google and Yahoo search commissions). The answer is that all the money Mozilla Corp makes is reinvested back into Mozilla Corp (salaries etc). The Mozilla Foundation -- a non-profit which wholly…
This is exactly right. I'm an engineer at the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, and these donations keep us working towards our mission (found at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/ ).
Would that be your mission to copy Chrome as much as possible?
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#18Wikipedia and Mozilla are great products so I donate once a year for both projects.
Thanks for that. Are you trying to boost your ego or something?
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#19well, donating to mozilla and not openSSL, freeBSD does not make a better internet. Nowadays we have strictly NO LTS free/open source portable build chain of decent quality (compiler, linkers). (maybe also because of the norms) When I say LTS compiler, I mean a compiler that can portably and reproducibly build code in C without flags on the CLI to the same exec and without developers having to archive their compiler…
LTS makes sense for an operating system. LTS doesn't make sense for utility. Actually, there is an LTS version of Firefox known as ESR [1]. You typically see this on university computers or some corporate machines. Personally, I don't see the value of ESR, because internal applications should be constantly improving, more and more machines are equipped with Chrome which AFAIK doesn't have ESR, and more and more corporate are giving out machines or allowing workers to tunnel in with VPN from personal workstation, the argument to actually continue to use ESR is diminishing IMO.
Anyway, I think you can create a thread to ask people to donate to other causes. That's fine.
[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
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#20Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don't need my money any more.
I don't keep up too much, so what basic civic engagement issues have they acted on since the one highly publicized incident? A browser like Mozilla, and its place in the market, is overtly political in itself. It always has been; open source is politics. Heck, dozens of major OSS projects have the "don't donate to us, donate to our sponsored charity" thing going on. Those projects focus on very liberal, social justic…
While many open source projects tend to get political, open source is not about politics any more than regular proprietary products are.