My Thoughts on the Firefox situation
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I’ve used Firefox since it was Mosaic, and when it was called Netscape Navigator.
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I agree that the removal of the promise not to sell your data is bad, and the new EULA is bad.
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I worry about the long term product development of Firefox
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I question the role of the fork in development, meaning I don’t know how much they can do on their own without Firefox proper.
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Firefox sync is an important feature to me. I’m open to self-hosting but not losing it.
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I’m open to new browsers for the future, but this is a huge effort.
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Brave is NOT the solution. No way, no how.
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We need an alternative to Webkit based browsers.
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Firefox will have lessons for us about FLOSS sustainability. We don’t know what those lessons are yet.
#Mozilla #Firefox
I think it is not too early to start drawing some lessons about what happens to a free software project when it’s run by an organization that’s controlled by a greed-oriented CEO who fills the executive team with like-minded people from places such as Meta and Twitter.