Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy

From	"Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.freeware, comp.programming, comp.lang.c, alt.conspiracy
Subject	Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy
Date	2019-05-04 15:02 +1000
Message-ID	<nvivpf-10k.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au> (permalink)
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On 04/05/2019 04:11, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 5/3/2019 8:15 PM, Yrrah wrote:
>>
>> A sensible policy change in my opinion. After all, FFx is free open
>> source software. Extensions should also be FOSS, without obfuscated
>> code. I wonder why it wasn't implemented years ago.
> 
> 
> Obfuscation is one way to make sure that only you can maintain your 
> codes, giving you long-term job security.
> 
> It's a famous conspiracy theory as well. But given the chance, can you 
> read the source codes of Micro$oft Window$ & Linux? I frankly doubt 
> it.... ;)
> 
Well, I can read Linux source code, but then I took my degree back in 
the longago when a B.Sc. majoring in Computer Science meant you learnt 
how to program things like Operating System kernels.

And if you meant the source isn't available, well:
	<https://github.com/torvalds/linux>
	<https://www.kernel.org/>
ad-bloody-infinitum says you are wrong.

(And if you meant UNIX source code, well, if you don't have a SysV 
source code license, or equivalent, well, you'd be right :-) )

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

-- 
When men talk to their friends, they insult each other.
They don't really mean it.
When women talk to their friends, they compliment each other.
They don't mean it either.

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Re: Mozilla updates its Firefox Add-on Policy "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 02:11 +0800
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