1. If it is even remotely true that Mozilla could have/can walk away from Yahoo (Verizon Oath) deal w/out penalty…http://www.computerworld.com/article/3099804/it-industry/verizon-must-pay-even-if-mozilla-walks-from-yahoo-search-deal.html …
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2. And they didn’t take that chance to divest themselves of
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3. It says something about whether they are shackled to
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4. This would be the perfect time to take the money and invest it in creating decentralised, interoperable, zero-knowledge infrastructure…
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5. (And I don’t mean their paltry $2M PR move, I mean going all-in. They would kickstart the personal networking era if they wanted to.)
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6. Mainframes (centralised) -> Personal computing (decentralised) -> Web (centralised; you are here) -> Personal Networking (decentralised)
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7. They could basically realise the vision I outline in https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons … & unshackle their business from
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8. If Mozilla wanted to, it could take on
#SurveillanceCapitalism and win. If it wanted to, this would be the time w the Verizon situation.2 replies 10 retweets 3 likes -
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9. And if it doesn’t. If it decides to continue as the acceptable face of
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10. …then you can be pretty sure it does so willingly & not just because it has shackled its survival financially to
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Mozilla is very unlikely to do any of that, because the leadership is extremely risk adverse. Twitter not the right place to elaborate...
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