> afaik punching a whole in the great firewall isn't that hard (openvpn > might be enough?) So if Mozilla really wants a fight providing something > better is at least theoretically possible.
"Can't we just..." syndrome is particularly nasty when we are talking about cultural stuff we don't really know about. I'm sure if that was the best option, that's what we would be going with. I'm sure the team did their research, probably even (gasp!) talked to knowledgeable folks who know the situation (like Li Gong), and thought for weeks/months about the issue, unlike we who have only had a few days to think about it and armchair quarterback the situation. My guess is that while poking a firewall hole isn't hard, poking one big enough for every Chinese Firefox user is either too much, too costly or too dangerous to do. Same with trying to teach every individual Firefox user in China how to poke their own firewall holes (to me that feels like we'd be complicit in mass-treason. Disclaimer: the above is entirely speculation and guesses by me. I have not been to China, I have no family in China, just a few friends and I haven't asked them about this. -Sheeri _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
