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Thats not how it works. To become an addon reviewer there is a process and it is not like all the reviewers are the same. Again please, don't treat volunteers w

Thats not how it works. To become an addon reviewer there is a process and it is not like all the reviewers are the same. Again please, don't treat volunteers who are donating their time and effort as unaccountable or as if they don't know security, they are accountable and there is also a staff team working on there. There are a ton of volunteers who are very good with security. Whatever happened between this addon author and the review this is kinda private to them. I really dislike when people assume that because you're a volunteer that you're unaccountable or less capable technically or security wise than an employee. That is simply not true. There are volunteers in all places at Mozilla and personally, I think this is great. Also treating Mozilla as a company is not really the ideal mindset. Mozilla is at best a NGO, a foundation, who owns a company for legal reasons, who is also a community, who builds a ton of stuff. It is quite a complex entity to be summarized as "a company should handle this different".

shkkmo 8y ago
I don't understand what point you are trying to make. First you agree with the OP that the reviews being done by volunteers who can makes mistakes somehow makes Mozilla less culpable, then you jump in to say that these volunteers are just as accountable, technically capable and security wise as an employee would be. You only seem interested in letting Mozilla off the hook rather than acknowledging the systemic issues that gave rise to this situation. > Also treating Mozilla as a company is not really the ideal mindset. Mozilla is at best a NGO, a foundation, who owns a company for legal reasons, who is also a community, who builds a ton of stuff. Except the Mozilla Corporation is the entity that develops Firefox and is a company. That company may be wholey owned by a non-profit, but it is still a company.

shkkmo 8y ago

I don't understand what point you are trying to make. First you agree with the OP that the reviews being done by volunteers who can makes mistakes somehow makes Mozilla less culpable, then you jump in to say that these volunteers are just as accountable, technically capable and security wise as an employee would be. You only seem interested in letting Mozilla off the hook rather than acknowledging the systemic issues that gave rise to this situation. > Also treating Mozilla as a company is not really the ideal mindset. Mozilla is at best a NGO, a foundation, who owns a company for legal reasons, who is also a community, who builds a ton of stuff. Except the Mozilla Corporation is the entity that develops Firefox and is a company. That company may be wholey owned by a non-profit, but it is still a company.