Well, if you are suggesting that Pocket is so essential to Firefox as the major search engines out there, then there is a bigger governance problem here. But ask yourself why most of the open source projects have actually switched to DuckDuckGo while Firefox continues to stick with Google or whoever paid the bill that year. Just like in politics, with money comes responsibility towards the entity that gave you funding.
Pocket is hardly an indispensable thing and more importantly, it is a very simple piece of technology that could probably be serviced by an open source project eventually. People could still install it as an extension if they like, but money is corrupting the decision making process of Mozilla, so that instead of watching out for the user, as pretty much your mission states, the money received has become part of the equation. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 6:45 PM Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:39 AM, <aclsid2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was very surprised to be looking through my Pocket bookmarks to find > advertising there. I was totally unaware that this was a non-open source > for profit application that was bundled with Firefox. > > > > I don't know about you, but I believe that a non-profit organization has > no business including adware with their main product. > > Does that include features like Yahoo/Google search, both of which are > also include ads in their products? > > / Jonas > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
