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Mozilla’s New Terms of Use are out of step with Firefox’s Direct Competition (www.quippd.com)
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On Wednesday, Mozilla introduced legal updates to users of Firefox, and something feels off. I read, and re-read the new Terms of Use and while much of it reads like standard boilerplate from any tech company, there’s a new section that is unexpected:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nah, I don't take a charitable view. I did work as a software engineer and open source advocate at Sony for many years and was involved in lots of discussions with the Legal department around open source licensing. I simply know a bit how this works from their point of view which is quite different from that of "us".

I think you're making the mistake of believing your viewpoint to be the only correct one.