Mozilla Corrupta
It appears that a lot of the problems start with Mozilla being intent on refusing to call the ads what they are, while insisting the changes are somehow a great innovation in browsing.
No, Mozilla, they are ads, and your refusal to call a shovel a shovel taints you with the morals of the businessman and the executive. What, did I hear that you are tired of being a
? Then why don't you pass off Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey and your other projects to another open-source organization. Then you can go your own way, selling condos or pasties or plastic doodads. Talking like you do, Mozilla, makes you sound like a mob of bored executives … the kind that make good television shows or cable channels worse … the kind that need to be fired in order to save the browser from further corruption.window into the web
The kind of rhetoric Mozilla's using is the sort you'd expect from a cable company, which love to insist that the new $5 monthly fee on your bill isn't to make money, it's to
improve the customer experience.Mozilla is a nonprofit organization, and for more than seven years around 85% of their funding has come from Google for being the browser's default search engine. While most people wouldn't fault them for wanting to have a broader revenue stream, refusing to call a spade a spade clearly isn't helping the sales pitch.