@ploum Enshittification progress report: going strong.
Stupid question: if the fundation has lost its direction/vision, what efforts would be needed to fork and reboot it?
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@gdupont @ploum You should read the slides used in MoFo board meetings then: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board They will tell you what the MoFo board is talking about in its meetings. Spoiler alert: it doesn't involve Firefox or Thunderbird. I guess most of the vision for the software comes from the people directly working on it (developers, project managers etc.). Hard to know, I don't work there, but the MoFo board definitely doesn't have a very good opinion of Firefox. @sirber @bohwaz @ploum This is still relevant today but we also have new technological issues with AI models an conversational assistant and even crypto (if only to avoid the scams). In that sense, Firefox/Thunderbird is not enough. @sirber @bohwaz @gdupont @ploum What they're going to do is fix all the memory leaks, gigantic allocations, and useless CPU churn and then replace all that with a background process that turns your computer into a processing cell for an AI and bitcoin mining operation. You won't notice. Sort of like SETI@Home except you're actively using your computer at the time thinking your computer is actively working for you. All browser development teams have been secretly working this plan for decades. @crazyeddie |
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They never had a vision they've been running like a headless chicken for years chasing the shiny new thing and giving it up after a couple years. The foundation doesn't care about firefox.
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