Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's Direct Competition

Re:Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's... by shakow on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:13PM (#43201301)

Outside of all this culture war stuff, on a much more tangible subject, I guarantee you that for the money they sank in their flashy Paris headquarters[1,2] (thousands of m² in one of the fanciest areas), they could have paid for hundreds of man-years in very decent French engineers wages.

Let's be honest, they just spent the Google money like if there was no tomorrow, and an individual that won't even see from afar that much money in my whole life, I won't be donating to save them from their pitiful financial choices.

[1] https://www.mellett-architects.com/en/portfolio/mozilla/ [2] https://blog.mozilla.org/places/2013/03/27/mozilla-paris-fin...

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Re:Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's... by diggan on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:38AM (#43204953)

Sure, I agree with Mozilla not being the greatest steward (as written minutes before the comment you responded to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43195286), I'd much more like Firefox split off from Firefox.

But regardless of our feelings for Mozilla being one way or another, listening to authors who clearly are over-emotional about subjects isn't a way to learn more.

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Re:Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's... by shakow on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:25AM (#43205929)

> listening to authors who clearly are over-emotional about subjects isn't a way to learn more.

Independently of the guy's own politics (I only know his “Linux Sucks” videos), he is directly citing an official Mozilla[1] document.

[1] https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/schedule?isRecorded=tru...

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