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I think it's fine to hold Firefox to higher moral standards than its competitors, but what I don't like is the general negative vibe in which people criticize it (or Mozilla) for not being perfect. There is always a constructive manner in which we can suggest stuff and I sometimes feel that the criticisms are too derisive and maybe even toxic. We may need to reach a collective agreement that some things, like browsers, should not be tied down to business models, but rather to make them a public tool or utility. Sure, people working to improve it and maintain it should get properly compensated for it, but eventually we will reach a point where no more 'growth' can be squeezed out of a product, and that's when privacy-invasive measures start to creep in (as we've seen with Chrome). So, my argument to save Firefox is to stop trying to make money with it, and perhaps lobby governments around the world to mandate its usage or to add dedicated government IT workers to contribute patches and maintain localization and internationalization (not just for Firefox, but for other FLOSS stuff). It's not a crazy idea, since a lot of countries have rather efficient socialized postal services...


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