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Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit whose job is to make the internet better. Part of that is the subsidiary Mozilla Corporation, which makes money and develops F
by cmdli 3y ago
Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit whose job is to make the internet better. Part of that is the subsidiary Mozilla Corporation, which makes money and develops Firefox, but the overall nonprofit can do other things. Think EFF, not Google.
While it is a bit weird to be pushing for a proprietary product (Slack) to add a certain feature, I suspect that this was done to 1) make the web better and 2) as a PR act to show off the work they are doing in advocacy.
- andsoitis 3y ago> Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit whose job is to make the internet better. Through technology? Or through (non-technical) activism? It seems like a better spend of their time would be to build better collaboration and social media solutions, rather than lobby for a feature like this on a platform that’s mostly used in organizations but not the wide internet.
- cmdli 3y ago> Through technology? Or through (non-technical) activism? Both? Mozilla Foundation isn't just an engineering org, and the internet isn't just a technology but also a place with rules and norms. Influencing the direction of the internet is a necessary part to making it better. If the EFF was the one doing this I imagine there wouldn't be any complaints, and the Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit just like the EFF is.
- this_user 3y agoSo what are they going to do next, campaign for MS to make "Teams" actually usable? That might actually make the Internet better, but it's also way out of scope of what Mozilla's mission ought to be. This seems more like a desperate attempt to stay relevant (and continue to receive donations).