I don’t understand… when did Mozilla, a not-for-profit that owns a half-billion-dollar-a-year for-profit that gets its half-a-billion dollars every year from Google go bad? They seemed like such good folks.
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@aral It was when their head honcho negotiated millions of dollars a year in compensation. If a company has a pay scale range going from volunteer to millions of dollars a year their policy decisions will always be in the service of massive profits.
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Capitalism co-opts and corrupts everything eventually.
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Every organization initially presents a positive image and good treatment.
Mozilla’s head of public policy to me, back when: “I don’t know why you’re holding us to such a higher standard, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”
Me to folks: “Mozilla is just another Silicon Valley tech company. They’re not what they say/you think they are.”
Folks to me: “Shut up, you tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist!”
Folks, today: “Umm, why is Mozilla acting like just another Silicon Valley tech company? I guess we’ll never know.”
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Earlier this year they acquired and incorporated into Firefox an ad-tech company founded by two of the top marketing guys of Facebook in the 2010s. They kept them as heads of ads or something like that.
When I said this was a terrible move and made Firefox future look dire I was called all kind of names 🤷
@aral Also Mozilla: Why are you treating us like a Silicon Valley company? We are righteous community dudes!
@mjj Yep. (My jaw did hit the floor when she told me that – the context for the original comment is that she was asking me to go easy on them at a conference we were both speaking at. I managed: “But that’s not what you tell everyone, is it?”)
Hello @aral What is your browser of choice these days then? Vivaldi?
@bilal_mo I think Aral currently uses Safari from Apple.
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115536762520089357
@aral I am feeling a bit caught out by it all, I have to admit. Sad times. #BlameCapitalism #ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings