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.
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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