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Mozilla and Google's "Don't-Be-Evil" Bulldozer
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla execs John Lilly and Mitchell Baker were interviewed at the WSJ's All Things Digital conference last week. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discussed the history of Firefox, proprietary versus Open Source development and the debut of Chrome and Mozilla's changing relationship with Google. A great interview. Well worth reading. There's video as well."
I'd like to thank Slashdot and Ron Malda for this opportunity. I'd also like to give a shout out to Signal 11 and Hot Grits man for the inspiration. I'd like to thank all of the Slashdot editors, without whose total failure at spell checking, basic grammar, and fact checking I would have long ago been too bored to keep reading this blog concentrator. And finally, props to fellow frost posters. Maybe you'll get 'em next time. Keep on reaching for the stars, and keep on keepin' on.
Censorship is not evil!!!! Worship GOOGLE!!!! Give us more money!!!!!
Yes. All you need to do is Google yourself, and it'll return a realtime photo.
Perhaps a question along the lines of "And how much great software was written by non-experts?" would have been more fitting.
Ezekiel 23:20
Pull your head out of your GNU/Ass and fix your fucking code.
Gimme the source code for lib0ass. I wanna compile my own.
...I'm lonely
It's version 2.Oh, man... get with the program. We're fuckin' synergizin' here.
Did google cut funding half way through Mitchell Bakers' haircut?
Or is the haircut open source, so anyone can come along and change it as they please?
It was probably done to piss you off. I mean - you, specifically. Taco woke up one day, and said "I'm going to make a series of changes that will break the site. It will affect tens of thousands of people, but all I care about is that it pisses BitZtream off".
Pull your head out of your GNU/Ass and fix your fucking code.
Gimme the source code for lib0ass. I wanna compile my own.
...I'm lonely
Right here! On a sister site of Slashdot, no less!
It's an important distinction, too... the first option allows for Evil acts (they just need to be outweighed by good acts -- the net outcome of all of Google's acts must be either neutral or good). The second option would severely hamper their ability to take over the word (or, worst-case-scenario, end the world, a la Googol the Destroyer).
Personally, I think Google's motto should be "See all evil, Hear all evil, Use all evil data collected to sell complex targeted (evil) advertising schemes)".
But something tells me that wouldn't fit well underneath a logo on a baseball cap.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai