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MagneticFusion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• chaogomu@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'd take it all with a grain (or pound) of salt. The Author of this article is a Qanon, and has a political agenda of his own.

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  • gsa32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …mozilla.net/…/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf

    He’s a rightoid lunatic, but a broken clock is right twice a day

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    • chaogomu@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This rightoid lunatic is complaining that the Mozilla foundation is living up to their mission statement. From the report;

      Established in July 2003, Mozilla Foundation (the Foundation) is a California not-for-profit
      corporation that exists to improve and protect the internet as a public resource by working
      with thousands of volunteers to 1) keep the internet a universal open platform and 2) promote
      continued innovation on the internet. The Foundation supports the development of open-
      source, standards-compliant, free internet applications useable free of charge to hundreds of
      millions of users. It also a) develops foundational technologies that can be used to build the
      values of openness and interoperability into the internet; and b) fuels the movement for an
      open internet through educational work that connects open internet leaders with each other
      and mobilizes grassroot activities around the world. The Foundation is headquartered in San
      Francisco, California.

      Now, the issue that this audit found was that the corporations were too tightly controlled by the foundation, but the foundation is still working towards a free and open internet. I'd call it a win.

      Also, the report is kind of dry, and only really lays out numbers. There's no boiled down conclusions, but the numbers look good. The assets outweigh the liabilities.

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    • stillwater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What makes this rightoid lunatic right here but not some other rightoid lunatic situation? These people lie and manipulate information all the time to make false conclusions, that’s their whole MO.

      Why should we assume that he’s right in this case and that it’s not yet another case of right wing misinformation?

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  • MagneticFusion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is good to know. At the end of the day you should not trust everything you read on the internet. But he still does raise some valid concerns regarding Mozilla’s financial situation

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think the “politics” side is separate from their products though. The fact is that the competitors, the massive tech giants, have significant political arms as well. They fund initiatives, lobby governments, and try to squeeze out more power and influence in the tech landscape.

  You can’t fight that with just a “better product”. Especially if most casual users don’t care about those “better” features (usually privacy and security related ones) as much as we might.

  If their political arm is pushing for better privacy laws and pushing against corporate control of the tech world, then that is in line with what I’d want my donation money going towards.

  I do agree that their finances could use some more openness and explanation. I’m leaning towards this being incompetence (or lack of focus) rather than malice.

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  • Navarian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pretty much this. People seem to forget that we few that value this level of browser privacy and security are an extreme minority.

    The vast majority of users just want it to work, without error. Some don’t even care that much about it being fast or slow once they’re entrenched in the system.

    Frankly I’m anti-lobbying, in an ideal world this shit would be illegal. But we’re not in an ideal world and this is not abnormal.

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