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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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AMA with Firefox Leadership on Thursday (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 week ago by funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/24899909

It's possible to submit questions already. Getting a feeling there'll be some uncomfortable ones; we'll see if they dare to engage with those.

A lot of the frustration that people have stems from Firefox's deeply flawed financing model, whereby the focus can never be solely put on the quality of the browser. Personally, with Google now being recognized as a monopolist and Mozilla in danger of losing 85% of its funding, I hope they can adopt Thunderbird's financing model (i.e. donations).

Now that they're not doing fundraising for lawmaking and/or grassroots activism because their advocacy team shut down, I hope they'll get a few people together and start to raise money from the user base.

This could be a very positive change for Mozilla if they play it right.

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[–] scholar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Dear Mozilla Leadership Team: Why do you keep making terrible leadership decisions?

[–] tenaciousd@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So mozilla has now its own reddit like, at least does it federate?

[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The guy posted cross posted it to c/OpenSource, so I guess

[–] tenaciousd@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

The x-post came from discuss.tchncs.de, a Lemmy community.