Adam, Thanks for providing the extra information. I don't have much more to say as I'm not well informed on the relationships these companies have with their governments or their business practices. I am not so naive, just speaking broadly. I do think though that this problem isn't limited to China and Russia. If we were to be extremely ideal and never take money from companies that provide information to governments in a way that is harmful to the people affected, then we wouldn't be able to partner with any search engines.
Mozilla isn't a 100% idealistic movement. We don't want to just imagine the perfect web, we want to build it. That means being practical as well. We will struggle with where the line between practical and idealistic should lie. There are some areas where I think Mozilla is not being idealistic enough myself. I would say that there is a difference between imperfect solutions and bad ones. Imperfect solutions should be ok and not considered hypocritical so long as we still recognize the solution as imperfect and try to improve it when we can. That said, it's really important that people like you raise these issues in a respectful and informative way. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Robert Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Kaiser schrieb: > >> From all I understand, the Yandex deal only is for Russia and does not >> include any of the other named countries >> > > Sorry, given how the bug reads, this understanding is probably incorrect. > I do not know any details of any deals, I took a guess. > > KaiRo > > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
