Post AlxmGYQH5uvK4SIPUe by puercomal@sfba.social
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 (DIR) Post #AjCEy6XtjxnImufzFo by jwz@mastodon.social
       2024-06-22T20:04:13Z
       
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       Mozilla's Original Sin.Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a *company shipping products*, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.Those are different things and are very much in conflict. [...]https://jwz.org/b/ykVr
       
 (DIR) Post #AlxmGXdi0U4jdpZcnI by fl0_id@mastodon.social
       2024-06-22T20:17:07Z
       
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       @jwz disagree. I know many ppl that would or could not use Firefox if they hadn’t and like this it’s a viable alternative. What do the gazilion Mozilla/netscape/firefox or chromium forks/alternatives do for the open web because they disable drm or replaced / removed other functionality? Not much.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlxmGYQH5uvK4SIPUe by puercomal@sfba.social
       2024-06-22T23:02:33Z
       
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       @fl0_id @jwz compromising on principles means you don’t have them. Which means you’re left with no way to distinguish yourself from a crowded marketplace. Which means you’re competing with price. That works poorly when your competitor is a free loss-leader establishing a moat for a different, related business (not even looking at said competitor’s financial ties to Mozilla). So with principles and price off the table, how is it competitive at all? Mild technical differences, and branding. Might as well have folded up shop instead.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlxmGbKMIMyR4yYEBk by fl0_id@mastodon.social
       2024-06-22T20:17:18Z
       
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       @jwz I’m sure ffx ppl could do more and it can lead to bad things, but many other roads just lead to irrelevance. In that sense, shipping things is importantly, because of you f e have the most morally correct product, but many cannot use it or it cannot do what they need, what impact do you really have?
       
 (DIR) Post #Alxmnvox7d1kC8kphw by amerika
       2024-09-13T14:26:21.906407Z
       
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       @fl0_id @jwz Mozilla behaves like a beaten adversary now. It lost its market share, so it is trying to "play nice" to catch up. DRM is great for bugman content but irrelevant to many of us.