Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> The problem is that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mozillaofficial" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mozillaofficial</span></a></span> refuses to acknowledge that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> and it's promise of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/openness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openness</span></a> is their <em>"core <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/product" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>product</span></a>"</em> and that many people, including myself, will <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/divest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divest</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boycott</span></a> any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/donations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donations</span></a> to them until they apologize and undo the harm they pushed with <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>"</em> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> - based <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a>. </p><ul><li>And if that means we'll have the same situation as with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenOffice</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZFS</span></a>, (where <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oracle</span></a> basically <em>"mobbed"</em> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>developers</span></a> into <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/forking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forking</span></a>-off into <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>libreoffice</span></a></span>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illumos</span></a> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@openzfs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openzfs</span></a></span> ), then so be it.</li></ul><p>In fact, I hope <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> gets handed over to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TorBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TorBrowser</span></a> becomes the new <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Upstream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Upstream</span></a>!</p>