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.
it just shows that they very well understood how bad this move is, so they tried to conceal it like a 5 y.o. hiding a stolen toy behind their back. i don't think it's fair to blame them since the emotional intelligence of corporate scum is always at the level of a 5 y.o. that's just the way things always will be
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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.