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For a no profit organization it's pretty wealthy thanks to its commercial patners: from #Google to #CloudFlare, I don't think we can qualify #Mozilla products as #free.
[Mozilla]’s pretty wealthy thanks to its commercial partners I don’t think we can qualify #Mozilla products as #free.
Being poor does not make software you make free. Respecting user’s freedoms to use it for any purpose, modify to suite any needs, and distribute for any fee with or without modifications does.
You are not allowed even to redistribute exact, unmodified copies of Mozilla Firefox® free of charge — what’s to think about here? Of course, it’s nonfree.
One could say that there is no link between #freedom pursuit and #wealth, and according to liberals and their #propaganda / #marketing / theoretical framework there isn't any.
But statistically, groups that collect wealth just pretend to fight for freedom.
After all wealth is a form of #power and power restricts others' freedom.
So ultimately rich philantrophism is just a marketing investment. Or a form of corruption. Or, most of times, both.
#Mozilla's wealth come from #US companies that work in the opposite direction of what they pretend to do. So they align with their interests.
We shouldn't forget what #OpenSource is: a marketing tool.
They want to be confused with the #FreeSoftware built from the #hackers they marginalize, but they have nothing to do with us.
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But statistically, groups that collect wealth just pretend to fight for freedom.
I dunno what this statistics is, but history teaches us that groups that collected enough wealth do value their freedom, and are perfectly ready to fight for it. If necessary, literally fight — with weapons. These fights are now known as bourgeois revolutions.
And I do not see, why freedom of computing should be an exception. Does Google willingly use nonfree software? I never heard of any example and I bet — no: they do value a freedom to make their computing however they wish, without asking anyone’s assent. But even Google is not almighty: we know, they failed to eliminate Intel ME (a malware built into all modern Intel CPUs), but note — they tried.
They do not bother about our freedom, of course.