A quarter century of Mozilla

Posted Apr 7, 2023 18:43 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: A quarter century of Mozilla by NYKevin
Parent article: A quarter century of Mozilla

> Their developers do, and in most cases, those developers are not a monolith. Just because a project calls itself "free software," it does not necessarily mean that all developers are 100% on board with Richard Stallman's definition of "free software."

Yes. It also goes further than that. It is entirely possible for people to use the term - free software and not buy into the notion that GNU FDL is a free documentation license or the strategy around firmware is the right one or that GPLv3 handling of Tivo or Novell patent clauses were the right ones and so forth. It may be indicative that they are more sympathetic to the RMS view on things but not conclusively so. Insisting that they do is likely going to end up with more people adopting a different term - open source or libre software or something else.