Personally, because they are shady, extremely profitable and yet ask for donations.
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 year agoI’m not sure why there is so much anti-Mozilla hate. I know they’re far from perfect but they do an awful lot for the open source world. Having an open database for voice training seems like something that the world can use to do some good.
Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But when I donate my voice, it’s not going to some vault at Mozilla. It becomes part of an open resource that anyone can use to build models, libraries, etc.
Just because it is organized by a company that may or may not have nefarious goals, isn’t that still a good thing to exist?
Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let me completely exaggerate to illustrate the concept:
If osama bin laden or hitler, mao, a terrorist org etc. start a charity to plant more trees you would feel uncomfortable planting trees for their charity.
If I don’t fully trust a company, it discourages me from participating in anything they do, no matter the intention.
angrymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because everyone knows better how to do open source, and these ppl are usually right ideally, but when you apply some concepts you can starve to death. Much of what mozilla does are not ideal, but are very good, and the only option of things we need today, not in 20-30 years.
InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The problem with mozilla is they forget about their browser and completely ignore it. It’s almost like even they have given up on firefox…