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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the new terms:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Firefox and Chromium are open source, but virtually everybody working on them is employed by Google or Mozilla.

If you look at the changelogs and dev blogs of all the various forked versions of those projects, what you'll see is that the devs spend basically all their time trying to keep up with all the changes coming out of Google/Mozilla and then trying to find out how to re-integrate the tweaks they've developed that makes their version different -- which is normally just applying a skin, or a plugin, or removing something they consider a misfeature.

Let me know if you would like me to continue schooling you.

Oh, I wasn't aware you'd started. You must be a terrible teacher.