It's a situation/problem that exists in the real world, and affects the rights of users? Does a blog need a reason to write a post?
I feel like the topic is a good one, given that most people don't read the ToS, and if put in comic book form, some of the characters might be saying pretty damning things like, "You give up your constitutional right to a trial by jury by using the service." Most users never see that, and don't know that, yet it affects their rights. Seems like exactly Mozilla (or the EFF's) alley.
Add in that most commercial software use proprietary Tos/EULAs/etc., so nothing like the GPL-for-commercial products exists. Compare to a FOSS project, where the license can be summed up as "MIT": I've read the MIT license, and so now I know what the conditions are, from a mere three bytes. Each and every commercial snowflake has a EULA, and each must be read individually. For example, I Googled for Adobe Flash's, because I remember it onerous. If you do this, you get linked to page 87 of a 304 page document.[1] (In fairness, I seem to remember that only getting the relevant bit during install.)
Because Mozilla's goal is to keep the web open and advocate for personal data privacy. This article fits nicely there with the rest of similarly themed articles on the blog.
Aside from the creative exercise, it is a complete dud argument because Mozilla isn't comparing and contrasting with their own licenses and user agreements.
I mean, does Mozilla even offer album art downloads? Because I don't even get the beef they have with Jobsman's benign T&C.
