Right the fuck now Europe needs to eliminate or at least HIGHLY reduce dependency on America in all fields
I will defend the Free Software movement, but Stallman? Nah
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"Are the employees gonna see a cent of this?"
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"Fuck, no!"
Compare and contrast
Quick guide that's been shared around online lately for those unsure what this is:
This is the year of enshittification, isn't it? Damn every company has pushed the pedal to the metal on it
Randall also had a followup t-shirt, now out of production:
Until you're required to use their software for, say, banking or legal procedures. You DO NOT want this to become the status quo
Note of amusement: The GitHub issues tracker for that proposal got swamped with tickets either mocking this crap or denouncing it for what it is, this morning the person who seems to be the head of the project closed all those tickets and published this blog post, in essence saying "Shut up with your ethical considerations, give us a hand in putting up this electric fence around the web". Of course that didn't stop it.
Also somebody pointed out this gem in the proposal, quoted here:
6.2. Privacy considerations
Todo
Quick edit: This comment on one of the closed tickets points out the contact information of the Antitrust authorities of both US and EU, i think i'm gonna drop the EU folks a note
Edit: And they disabled commenting on the issues tracker
More worrying than that, when directly asked about this by the "Mastodon Migration" user, Rochko's answer was not "I did not sign any NDA", no "I have not met with them", no "I have not heard any proposal from FB", no "I haven't signed any documents", and sure as fuck no "I'm not considering selling out and betraying you all", no, he said just "I am not aware of any secret deals with Meta".
That's a textbook application of the Suspiciously Specific Denial trope.
We have to assume he met with them, signed the NDA and is seriously considering whatever they're proposing, and there's rumors that they're gonna pay money to any participant servers, that would make them effectively vassals of Meta.
Person uninformed about these things here with an uninformed question: What are the chances that the Mozilla Foundation itself can be forked like the code can be?