Glyn Moody, a long-time friend of Mozilla in the press, expresses the Mozilla community's worries very well, go give it a read:
<http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/02/is-mozilla-selling-out/index.htm> Quote: > This is not how Mozilla should be talking to its huge and loyal community, > which includes people who have been with it since the early days, and who do > not expect to be treated like dumb consumers that must be bamboozled with > high-sounding but hackneyed phrases. If Mozilla wants to find new ways to > earn money from its projects because it is worried about its dependence on > one company, just say so. We're grown-ups: we can take it. But don't sell out > to the world of marketing and lose all those other things that make Mozilla > special. ~F On 2/12/14 4:13 AM, Tim Taubert wrote: > Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: >> On 12/02/2014 07:42, Jim Porter wrote: >>> On 02/11/2014 07:26 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >>> I obviously wasn't involved in any internal discussion with "Directory >>> Tiles", but I'm hoping that this is something that was already fairly >>> well-known amongst Firefox Desktop devs. >> >> It was presented and discussed at the Firefox desktop work week in >> Paris, early January. There were many other ideas that were shot down >> well before they were even shown to the Fx desktop team. > > All of the people in and surrounding the Firefox Desktop team knew that > this would be coming. We talked a lot about it and the internal > communication was great, I think. > > Yesterday's external communication however brings a slightly uneasy > feeling after reading the blog post [1]. I did not feel like this was > targeted to the people who will (or rather might) be affected by the > changes. > > It would have been better to describe what we will be doing, why we will > be doing it, and more importantly *how* we are going to do it. There are > a few lines in the post trying to address this but we should have put > more emphasis there because Mozilla is about trust, and also because we > could have expected the news coverage to turn out like it did. This > tweet quite accurately describes my gut reaction and how others might > perceive it: > > https://twitter.com/zeigor/status/433557177220206592 > > I fully support the plan and think it is important but I wish we had > chosen a clearer way to communicate this. > > > [1] > https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publisher-transformation-with-users-at-the-center/ > > > - Tim > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
