Link to original post: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111932214690841585
Link to news link shown in the photo: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/
Cooperative ownership for all businesses too!
The mass won’t even consider being part of a paid membership of a cooperative that’s only purpose is a web browser. That would be the way to drive them even more into Chrome or Safari.
i don’t think you need to be a paid member to use the finished product. membership is for having a say in what will be changed.
This has some serious “only landowners should be allowed to vote” vibes
I will say directly that this model of governance is incompatible with the tenets of free software.
Which of the four freedoms does it fall short of?
2, and by extension 3 and 4
Hell depending on what this capital class votes for even 1 might be out the window.
How?
because having some capital class dictate the project is entirely antithetical to having the choice to contribute, even the AI stuff is just being contributed by a few large companies who want it
Why?
Contributing something because you want it is how free software works.
yes, and having a subscription based shareholder system is antithetical to this