jwzJan 19

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Show threadEsther Payne Jan 29

@jwz That survey was an exercise in asking us to please please let them do the AI.
Here's my response:

"Please, if management want to suck at the teet of AI and the grifting engine, spin out the browser and email clients. Let the community safeguard those. I don't even mind if you keep the names Firefox and thunderbird. But we can't afford for AI to be permanently entwined in this browser. We have forks but we need more community governance clear of the current hype in silicon valley." 1/4

Show threadLorraine LeeJan 29
@jwz @onepict I sure miss they days when open source was seen as a way to stick it to the man. I'm starting to think that instead of open source we should have been asking for noncommercial.
Show threadEsther Payne 

@lori Well it's possibly a good reason to consider choosing the GPL and Affero Licences over more permissive licences.

For some reason there's a lot of folks who love Open Source but not the Free Software side.

Code needs to be available to everyone, to download it, inspect it, learn from it, share it.

The GPL does that just fine.

Jan 29 at 3:54pmWeb
Show threadD2Jan 29
@onepict @lori am sure you know, but I hate that earlier GPL versions suffer ‘eat nonstop, never give back’ abuses by Saas/cloud/services, including some huge brands. The Affero GPL variant seeks to close that loophole.
Show threadLorraine LeeJan 29
@onepict Oh, I'm definitely on the free side of the free vs. open debate. I would suggest taking it one step further, from source code to data. There are a lot of open data sets in circulation, but I'd like to see more. Maybe found and operate an open books business (or better yet cooperative) just to demonstrate proof of concept...production operations under radical transparency.