I don’t care that Mozilla is now run by useless MBA garblebrains, that’s happening everywhere. I do wonder what kind of person would take their money and try to convince people all is well with some of the most mealy-mouthed bullshit I’ve ever seen.
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@rmi
> I don’t care that Mozilla is now run by useless MBA garblebrains, that’s happening everywhere
Not at FSF, EFF, Software Freedom Conservancy, Social Web Foundation, IFTAS, NlNet. Nor many other software freedom, tech rights and related orgs.
The takeover of digital commons institutions like Mozilla (CC, OSI, etc) by pod people who do-business-good but do not understand or act on our values is not inevitable. It can and must be resisted and rolled back.
Calling it out is step 1.
@rmi it’s quite astounding how much some people debase themselves, especially for a company that might not even be there in a year or two
@thomasfuchs that whole “there are different definitions of consent” thing is just fucking revolting.
@rmi
> that whole “there are different definitions of consent” thing is just fucking revolting
Link please? Or even just a title and author, or where it was published.
@strypey @thomasfuchs Don’t get in the mud with these people. They are no longer like us in any way that matters.
@rmi
> Don’t get in the mud with these people. They are no longer like us in any way that matters
Agreed. We need to either take back our institutions from the corporate pod people, or where that's not possible, replace them. Today I discovered the @nivenly Foundation via this;
This kind of democratic cooperative model is what we need to move digital commons stewardship towards.
Me:
> We need to either take back our institutions from the corporate pod people, or where that's not possible, replace them
Hard to say from the outside whether Mozilla's institutions are reformable, and I doubt anyone on the inside is free to comment honestly in public (hit me up privately, confidentiality guaranteed). But we've definitely reached a point where it's worth setting up a replacement(s).
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I'm encouraged by what the Ladybird team and their non-profit are doing;
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