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Mozilla is GAFAM, Just Look at Who Runs the Company

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Summary: Mozilla is bleeding and its attempts to appeal to GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) don't fool remaining users of Firefox; many Firefox users will leave (in droves), seeing that Mozilla is not what it publicly claims to be

It should surprise nobody that Mozilla serves monopolies. The code is outsourced to Microsoft (GitHub), Microsoft is in the Board, Google is by far the biggest paymaster, and as we noted earlier this week, Mozilla is now willing to "get its managers directly from the C.I.A. [whilst] it keeps hiring many managers from a notorious surveillance company, Facebook; the latest recruit too comes from the Zuckerbergs, so how does Mozilla intend to assure Firefox users that privacy is a priority? These people know nothing about Free software and some are actively hostile toward the Open Web and Open Source."



"We know the causes and we can guess the motivations."It's kind of sad because, for a while (maybe around 2006), Mozilla did some really fantastic stuff! From there on it was mostly a downhill journey with the decline becoming faster over time (steeper curve). We know the causes and we can guess the motivations. A lot of it boils to money, power, and unprincipled staff that sold out.

A reader borrowed an analogous situation involving Microsoft. "Was it Borland which Microsoft harassed in the same way?"

So said the reader, citing these two old articles:



"Microsoft hired away their top developers (31) and just put them out to pasture on salary in order to ensure that Borland had nothing to come to market with," the reader recalled. "Microsoft even used to send limos to Borland HQ to pick up the quislings for interviews."

"Is that what Zuckerberg is doing to Mozilla? If so, it would be most important to cover what Zuckerberg has to gain by eliminating or controlling Mozilla. Baker has maneuvered Mozilla to become nearly 100% financially dependent on Google's money. So they are, on purpose, really very weak at the moment."

Zuckerberg isn't the sole actor here. Mozilla also hired from Twitter (for a top role) and is quickly turning Firefox into social control media (Pocket), essentially looking to "monetise" what remains of the Firefox userbase.

The reader closed with: "Is there some collusion for mutual gain between "Meta" and "Alphabet"?"

Probably GAFAM more broadly. Mozilla knows where the money is; it's not in freedom but coercion.

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