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Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by accidentalrebel on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:23PM (#15397075)
This is interesting. Is there a list somewhere of all projects that Mozilla has helped in the past?

Huge respect to them.

Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by cadecairos on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:52PM (#15397510)
There's a "Past Recipients" section on the MOSS page: https://www.mozilla.org/moss/
Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by aorth on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:41AM (#15398884)
Hmm, it looks like the Caddy web server got $50,000 at one point (in 2016 apparently). They were the ones who recently decided (in mid 2017) that it was a good idea to add HTTP headers advertising the names of their sponsors to their open source version. Then, when someone forked their project, they filed a GitHub issue one hour later accusing the fork of trademark infringement! See the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237923

As to this year's MOSS recipients, Ushahidi received almost $200,000. They're a Kenya-based startup that was the darling of the Nairobi tech scene a few years ago but have increasingly come under criticism for their leadership during a recent sexual harassment scandal:

https://qz.com/1026890/kenyas-ushahidi-is-investigating-sexu...

Furthermore, one of their affiliated startups, who was making a "rugged" router powered by OpenWRT, was violating the GPL and was being quite dismissive and condescending to those of us who pointed out that they should be releasing the source code of their product. I covered this on my personal blog at the time:

https://mjanja.ch/2015/05/brck-in-violation-of-the-gpl/

Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by roblabla on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:43AM (#15399496)
I'm not sure why people are so worked up over caddy. The http header "feature" got promptly removed, and the trademark infrigment claim is necessary for them to avoid dilluting their trademark. Furthermore, they politely told the fork maintainer about the infrigment, it's not like they sent a bunch of threatening lawyers...
Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by jamespo on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:31AM (#15399233)
Shocked the developer of caddy couldn't retire on that $50K
Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by ReverseCold on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:10AM (#15398200)
I'm sad about pears search, the IRC channel is dead and there's been no meaningful activity in the repo for a while.