Clarifying What’s Really Going on at Mozilla

Mozilla has recently had a lot of blowback about several recent changes they’ve made to Firefox. They have introduced a Terms of Service and have updated their privacy policy to include vague language about data collection. I won’t go into detail here though, so if you don’t know what’s going on, this is a great summary:

As a reaction to this video, however, Ryan Sipes, a member of the Thunderbird team, went on video to clarify what the situation is. This video is definitely worth watching if you are interested in what is going on:

I tend to give Mozilla the benefit of the doubt in this situation. They were quick to react to the feedback they received and since they are such a prominent name in the open source community, their every move will be continued to be heavily scrutinized online which I’m absolutely certain they are aware of.