Re:Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox
by owl57 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:14PM
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Not only that, but now people are evaluating other decisions that Mozilla has made separately from this in an unfavorable light (Studies and Normandy, specifically).
Sounds like a good thing. Probably sounds like a good thing to some of the engineers at Mozilla.
The computing industry loses out on this too: we're all better off for chrome having a viable open source competitor.
I want a free competitor, not an open source one. And this is the most prominent example of that somewhat subtle distinction: Firefox is open source, but with all these backdoors it's no longer free, neither in spirit nor in practice.
P.S. On the other hand, it's probably indeed better to have at least two serious competing browsers, even if they are both non-free.
Sounds like a good thing. Probably sounds like a good thing to some of the engineers at Mozilla.
The computing industry loses out on this too: we're all better off for chrome having a viable open source competitor.
I want a free competitor, not an open source one. And this is the most prominent example of that somewhat subtle distinction: Firefox is open source, but with all these backdoors it's no longer free, neither in spirit nor in practice.
P.S. On the other hand, it's probably indeed better to have at least two serious competing browsers, even if they are both non-free.