It transforms the contribution to no longer be “share alike”.

Not disagreeing with you - just saying that the legal underpinnings of open source are the copyright regime.

Copyright isn’t awesome, it is useful. The whole basis of open source is built on the concept of copyright (copyleft), so alignment with copyright isn’t “sudden”, it is fundamental.

Eich was a failure. He sat on e10s for years while Chrome continued gaining marketshare. The path to monetization is something he says he wanted to do at Mozilla but did at Brave instead.

At Brave, he started with a Gecko offshoot but couldn’t make it work and retreated to Chromium.

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So we should take it seriously.

Thanks for clarifying!

Why did Mozilla staff take it seriously enough to immediately offer to get on a call with the writer of the stupid anecdote?

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You can’t tell if this one is baseless or not?

It is going to happen to all locales, not just Japan. The Japan locale leader was just a canary in the coalmine.

Yeah, I am astroturfing. It can’t be that I actually believed Mozilla when they said that localizers were heroic.