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by grey_earthling 947 days ago
Switching to Git makes sense, but choosing GitHub is diametrically opposed to what Mozilla claim their principles are β€” specifically principle 6 of the Mozilla Manifesto: β€œThe effectiveness of the internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralised participation worldwide.”

=> https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/about/manifesto/

In future it won't be possible to contribute to Firefox without a Microsoft account. If Microsoft decide to close your account (which they're entitled to do β€” they own the website), you can't participate.

Mozilla were one of the few hold-outs against this particular attempted monopoly. Again, Mozilla makes a short-termist decision that makes sense for a Silicon Valley lifestyle brand, but makes no sense for an independent mission-driven public-service community project.

They're an untrustworthy upstream.

2 comments

> They're an untrustworthy upstream.

All I needed to come to this conclusion was the abandonment of interesting (and necessary) projects like Servo, and the continual increase of superiors' salaries.

> In future it won't be possible to contribute to Firefox without a Microsoft account

What makes you think that?

If I understand correctly, they're moving development to GitHub, and not hosting their own git servers. So you'd need a GitHub (Microsoft) account to merge a change to the code.