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.)
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.)
[1]: Start http://www.adobe.com/products/eula/tools/flashplayer_usage.h... ; follow the link that doesn't give you what it claims to link to, search the page until you find http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/legal/license... and behold the legalese.