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Can someone eli5 the open source part of this?
The article basically says Firefox isn't ditching open source but I (the author) feel like the new terms are anti-open source?
Huh? Beside the click bait title, lying about the mozzila's intention, what's the author going on about?
It's kinda letter of the law vs spirit of the law.
People got opinions of what open-source should stand for outside of just having the source code available for others to use.
I doubt Mozilla are gonna lock away the source code anytime soon, But their recent antics have rubbed a lot of FOSS people the wrong way.
That doesn't explain the hostility. Nothing Mozilla has done recently warrants anywhere near as much aggression and rage baiting as these people have been doing.
I gave the Grsecurity anecdote to try to explain what I see as the weirdness surrounding the fact that Firefox as distributed by Mozilla is governed by both the source code license and its new ToS that adds new restrictions to the distributed product.
Clearly the uncompiled source code is open source and governed under an open source license.
Do you see Mozilla as displaying "aggression" and is their imposition of the ToS "rage baiting"? Mozilla made changes to the status quo. If the situation changes, are people not supposed to react?
There's a bizarre and extremely hostile subset of users who seem to have some kind of vendetta against Mozilla and Firefox. They're not above criticism, obviously, but these people inflate literally everything with unnecessary hostility.