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Mozilla's Original Sin
 By Jamie Zawinski (one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org)
 June 22 2024
 - https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-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. They 
 picked one. They picked the wrong one. 
 
 In light of Mozilla's recent parade of increasingly terrible 
 decisions, there have been cries of "why doesn't someone fork it?" 
 followed by responses of "here are 5 sketchy forks of it that get 
 no development and that nobody uses". And inevitably following 
 that, several people have made comments in the "Mozilla is an 
 advertising company now" thread to the effect that it is now 
 impossible for a non-corporate, open source project to actually 
 implement a web browser, since a full implementation requires 
 implementing DRM systems which you cannot implement without a 
 license that the Content Mafia will not give you. 
 
 This is technically true. ("Technically" being the best kind of 
 "true" in some circles.)" ...

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