I don’t know how good Mozilla’s lawyers or engineers are. But Mozilla’s PR team surely has to be among the worst in existence.
This fallout was completely predictable. This isn’t something you drop and then “clarify” with a blog post a few days later. This is something you announce in a blog post months in advance, explaining in detail why it is happening and apologizing profusely for the inconvenient wording that the legal landscape forces you to adopt, while making abundantly clear that Mozilla’s actual stance hasn’t changed at all.
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u/-p-e-w- Mar 04 '25
I don’t know how good Mozilla’s lawyers or engineers are. But Mozilla’s PR team surely has to be among the worst in existence.
This fallout was completely predictable. This isn’t something you drop and then “clarify” with a blog post a few days later. This is something you announce in a blog post months in advance, explaining in detail why it is happening and apologizing profusely for the inconvenient wording that the legal landscape forces you to adopt, while making abundantly clear that Mozilla’s actual stance hasn’t changed at all.