OT but what are they using to accept donations? I'm about to set up a donation page on a project I'm running and been looking for solutions. What do people recommend?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#33I think Mozilla is one of great organization and community. I love them as open source community. They are very polite and always helps and welcome to new bies. I really like the attitude of all the Mozillian. I think Open source world needed more polite and helpful people like Mozillians.
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#34well, 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…
If C compilers are such a problem then developers should move to better languages. It's not the 70s anymore.
No language other than C and FORTRAN have correct numerical libraries with a decent amount of speed.
Would you like the next plane that will make you travel to have the math done in javascript?
Would you like your pacemaker to fry 17W/h for a V8 engine and do you need mozilla embedded in it ?
Would you feel safe with nuclear plants control on the cloud?
Does a space probe rather needs support for an oauth2.0 or correct numerical analysis?
Don't you care that banking systems are correctly translating numerical amounts?
I mean computer are used for critical purpose too.
EDIT PS: numpy in python is binding on fortran libraries to do the job.
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#35Have they thought about coordinating with Amazon to make Mozilla a SMILE partner? I usually donate through them to the EFF, but it would be cool to throw some of it Mozilla's way.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
While many open source projects tend to get political, open source is not about politics any more than regular proprietary products are.
>open source is not about politics This is a quite naive point of view that even very smart people hold. Open source software makes and breaks whole industries in software, of course it's political.
You don't think it's a bit silly to say that building a product or tool is the same thing as engaging in government?
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#37I wish more people considered donating to Mozilla, Wikipedia, and other similar movements. I feel like many non-technical oriented people don't really understand that the software and websites they use are often times built completely with donated money, and cannot survive without it.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
>open source is not about politics This is a quite naive point of view that even very smart people hold. Open source software makes and breaks whole industries in software, of course it's political.
You don't think it's a bit silly to say that building a product or tool is the same thing as engaging in government?
Ah, but politics isn't limited to governmental affairs, it is everywhere: communities, technical committees and standard groups. Also some projects contribute more change to the structure of the society than most governments. I would say that linux and *bsds had a much more pronounced impact on global affairs than most countries governments.
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#39Their 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/ ).
Out of curiosity, is the MDN a Corp or a Foundation thing? I couldn't tell from the homepage, and I'm always stunned at how good a resource that is.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Less than a week ago Mozilla said they don't need the millions from Google. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630996
As @FooBarWidget says, this is about donating to the Mozilla Foundation, not the Corporation (which builds Firefox products). I'm an employee at the Foundation, and these donations help us keep running and working towards our mission, backed by these principles: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
All sounds warm and fuzzy to me. The Foundation should try to be more concrete in explaining what they do, and are currently accomplishing. Maybe this is already explained somewhere but I have no idea, and I'm a regular reader of HN, for example. Most people will spend even less time looking into it. The Mozilla Foundation/Corporation thing will only confuse people. Anyway, I'm donating kharma by explaining all of this. I'm done for now.