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>>and is now releasing it as open source I will believe that when I see the code. 7 months now still no code, and outside of the single blog post no other com
by syshum 9y ago
>>and is now releasing it as open source
I will believe that when I see the code. 7 months now still no code, and outside of the single blog post no other comments from Pocket, Read It later, or Mozilla has given any indication they will Open Source it. In fact Read It Later is still a for profit corporations operating as a subsidiary of the For Profit Mozilla Corporation, not the Mozilla Foundation the non-profit organizations
>Mozilla is the only one out of the big players that isn't guilty of betrayal, the only big player that tried opposing patent encumbered video codecs or DRM
They did... When???
>If you're upset of W3C EME, your anger should be directed at the parties responsible for it, which are Google, Microsoft and Netflix
I can be upset with W3c, Netflix, Google, Microsoft and at the same time be upset with Mozilla.
I am more upset with Mozilla because they are a Non-Profit organization that had (and I stress Had) a mission to promoting Open Standards, Open Web, and User Privacy. They have turned their back on that when those issues became less popular than performance. They turned their back on those principles because market share.
They have stopped attempting to education the public on why they should care about EME, about privacy, about anything really.
I find it sad that Mozilla is no longer a leader creating conversations about why the Open Web is needed for Society, about way Standing up for Privacy and User Freedom is important. Instead they have choosen to play follow the Leader to MS and Google.
Where is the 1990's Mozilla when Microsoft wanted to maket Active X a Standard and they stood up and said NO
Where is the 2000's Mozilla when w3c wanted to drop HTML in favor of XHTML and they formed WHATWG to force the W3C in to adopting HTML5 we have today.
Where did the Leader in the open Web go? Where did Mozilla go and what is this abomination that replace it?
- noncoml 9y agoI share your views and I am as angry as you are, but I think you are idealizing the Mozilla of the past. I always felt that Mozilla was just forced in a role it never really wanted. If you remember Mozilla was a child of the browser wars and my guesss is that if Netscape wasn’t cornered by MS it would still be closed source today. Even today you can see that business is still in their DNA, the for-profit subsidiary. However although Mozilla is far from perfect, they are our only hope.
- bigbugbag 9y agoActually mozilla means Mosaic Killer as their sole purpose was to replace NCSA mosaic browser to become the n°1 browser. It was the internal codename and user-agent for netscape and became the name of mozilla a reminder that their objective is to be the number 1 browser and the new target to replace had been IE.
- noncoml 9y agoYou are right. I am aware of the history of the name. All I was trying to say was that it wouldn’t be open source if it wasn’t for the browser wars.
- bigbugbag 9y ago> Where did the Leader in the open Web go? It was killed by moving focus from users and long term to quarterly profits and short term, around the time Jonvon Tetzchner was pushed to leave the company. wait are you talking about the leader in the open web or about mozilla here ?