Mozilla makes hundreds of millions from Google. Every single person could stop donating and they would continue along just fine (Well the CEO might need to take a 10 million yearly pay cut).
What weird is seeing people champion the enshittificstion of FOSS software.
What weird is seeing people champion the enshittificstion of FOSS software.
People keep using this word in places it doesn’t apply. “Enshittification” is specifically about online platforms that are two-sided markets. That’s not the case here. It doesn’t just mean that something is getting worse over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
The examples Doctorow user when coining the term were two sided markets, but if you actually read the original article for understanding, rather than to “well actually” on the internet, that the process being described is much more general than that, and is one of products or services becoming worse over time so that whatever value they provided becomes increasingly shifted toward shareholders.
This may seem weird in this case, still, because the only shareholder of Mozilla Corp is the Mozilla Foundation, but the principle still stands.
Moreover, you sound like a ridiculous pendant, because what’s actually happening here is that Mozilla is turning Firefox into a vehicle for advertising, which means it’s fucking entering a two-sided market… You’re arguing that the sky isn’t blue because it’s night time at fucking sunrise.
Mozilla makes hundreds of millions from Google. Every single person could stop donating and they would continue along just fine (Well the CEO might need to take a 10 million yearly pay cut).
What weird is seeing people champion the enshittificstion of FOSS software.
And you don’t see Mozilla’s reliance on financing from its main competitor as a huge issue?
My post covers all of your points.
People keep using this word in places it doesn’t apply. “Enshittification” is specifically about online platforms that are two-sided markets. That’s not the case here. It doesn’t just mean that something is getting worse over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Eh.
The examples Doctorow user when coining the term were two sided markets, but if you actually read the original article for understanding, rather than to “well actually” on the internet, that the process being described is much more general than that, and is one of products or services becoming worse over time so that whatever value they provided becomes increasingly shifted toward shareholders.
This may seem weird in this case, still, because the only shareholder of Mozilla Corp is the Mozilla Foundation, but the principle still stands.
Moreover, you sound like a ridiculous pendant, because what’s actually happening here is that Mozilla is turning Firefox into a vehicle for advertising, which means it’s fucking entering a two-sided market… You’re arguing that the sky isn’t blue because it’s night time at fucking sunrise.
Is mozilla is showing ads, then it is a two-sided marketplace.
Words mean whatever you want them to mean.
Only if you aren’t interested in a conversation where all parties have a clear understanding of what’s being discussed.