> This is the strategy I suggest:
Mason and heyjoe, I very much appreciate your efforts, but I would like to
put forth a fundamental question: Is this privacy flop inadvertent or is it
deliberate?
In the former case, your efforts are well placed and worth it. In the latter
case, you would be talking to a wall - actually worse than that, you would be
talking to diplomats with an alternative agenda. That is, you can steer them
- with much effort - into correction of all the 3 points. But would it matter
at all, to figth them in lower levels when they have a high level policy of
giving user privacies away to 3rd parties? They would need a watchdog team
closely scrutinizing them at all times. They would need to be fought against
every time they falter. It would be an endless, futile contention in the end.
For it to be a solution, high level policy must be changed, and this is an
issue beyond bug reports.
Even if FOSS community makes it a case and force Mozilla to change their
policies (as in the Ubuntu case) what good would it be when management is the
same? E.g. would you trust Ubuntu anymore just because they have corrected
their minor policies under community pressure? Management being the same,
have they changed their higher policies? (I doubt it)
Think about it: Mozilla did decide to collect user specifics and forward this
info to 3rd parties, didn't they? This decision cannot be haphazard or
inadvertent. It is a sober, deliberate decision. Not a bug. And you will be
trying to fight against that decision through bug reports.
You might be wasting your time and energy.
I think the effort should be concentrated on top management of Mozilla (how?
I don't know). I doubt they can be forced to change their minds (which really
matters), so even targeting top management might not pay off the invested
time and effort, but I can't see any other way in the direction of a possible
permanent solution.
One can't fight against a top level policy through bug reports. But may be
FSF can do something about this. So the best route of action, I believe, is
escalating this to FSF's attention.
