When people talk about wanting Firefox to have an open structure that treats Mozilla and non-Mozilla people the same, they are talking about things like https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/issues/36 …. There is no good reason why "sideloading an ad to FF" needs to be a thing Mozilla Corp is able to do.
was at all in touch with the community would not have used the SHIELD system to deliver an ad for MoCo. "Community doesn't solve all problems" is a far cry from "community leaders might not have noticed that this was a bad idea" I'm surprised you think that could have happened.
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See other reply - I don’t think there exists as clear a distinction between MoCo/community as you think. IMO the mistake here was the poor UX of the study system (i.e. confusing name/description) - and that is a class of mistake “the community” is just as likely to make.
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I am well aware of the lack of actual distinction. As I keep saying, that's what I'm criticizing! And no, if there was a good separation between MoCo business goals and Firefox the project, there would be a lot of suspicion about allowing the Corp to dictate this.
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There's a lot of assumptions of bad faith here, and that's not likely to help. Some people who are smart and very committed to the success of Firefox made a mistake. That will happen again, humans make mistakes.
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Big picture, the goal here was to do a good thing for Firefox growth. There are no divergent goals, every business metric depends on Firefox succeeding.
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I don't mean to assume bad faith! Certainly not! I think this was done with the best of intentions, and that this was an unintentional error. But I think some process changes could help avoid this in the future. I don't think it's a bad faith assumption to ask for those.
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The assertion of bad faith comes from loaded terms like "corporate hierarchy" and "business goals" as root problems that require non-employee involvement to counteract. Implying that those goals or objectives are somehow at odds with the best interest of Firefox.
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