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by krautburglar 13 days ago
Literal who has left the company that provides Google's antitrust insurance policy. That Mozilla still manages to swing "non-profit" status as they do this is outrageous.

I would like to see Mozilla's entire board leave Mozilla... in a PERP WALK.
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altairprime 13 days ago
Mozilla Corporation, owner and operator of the Firefox brand and recipient of Google’s payments, is not a non-profit. U.S. law permits non-profits to have for-profit subsidiaries if one accepts severe limitations, such as the corporation’s profits being largely severed from the non-profit’s use. Severance isn’t just a science fiction show, it’s a compulsory auditable requirement.
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krautburglar 12 days ago
Corporations get up to so many rotten things, most of which are entirely legal, but shouldn't be. Mozilla Corporation thanks you for the free ball-washing & PR work. If you reach out to their non-profit parent, you may even be able to deduct this on your taxes.
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altairprime 12 days ago
> Mozilla Corporation thanks you for the free ball-washing & PR work

I already left Mozilla in disgust, and I completely agree that corporations should, to use in-kind language, 'get fucked', so you may have misread. Don't mistake being corrected about the legality of a corporate structure for supporting it personally.

> Corporations get up to so many rotten things, most of which are entirely legal, but shouldn't be

Once I exit the other side of the next couple degrees, I'll have the skills to work as a forensic accountant with a specialty in piercing tech worker lies to reveal real and serious corporate malfeasance, and use that skill to start dissecting and dissolving corporations for criminal acts that no one realizes are occurring. (Sadly, I possess no non-public information on instances of such, or I'd be eligible for a rather significant whistleblower payout.) Or, if I decide to pursue a doctorate, one of the thesis options I've been considering would chop down a cornerstone principle of economics as leverage into forcing corporations to pay up. That decision's a couple years away, though it is a tempting option for sure.

But, hey, it's rude to just talk about me. What are you doing that will productively combat capitalism?

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krautburglar 12 days ago
> Don't mistake being corrected about the legality

Never wrote that it is illegal. Wrote that I would like to see them all perp walked.

> What are you doing that will productively combat capitalism?

I rendered my energies to honest businesses instead of antitrust insurance policies LARPing as charities. Doesn't matter what the economic system is when the public and its agents abandon morality. Mitchell Baker will still be Mitchell Baker.

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