As mentioned elsewhere on this page, this Matchstick device is not made by Mozilla. It's just a dongle running b2g (aka Firefox OS).
My proposal was to pop the random hordes of "open hardware!! will post links soon!1" folks on Kickstarter in their collective mouths. :)
Not Mozilla. I'm fine with them. In fact, it seems to me that the Mozilla folks aren't just wearing that cloak, they've putting a Free Culture lining in it and wearing it with pride. I repeat, I do not propose punching any Mozillans; I like them.
The point about them not being Free Software heretics appears to apply equally well to Matchstick. If they aren't actually part of the movement they can't be heretical (I guess if you wanted to stick with that heavy imagery you could call them blasphemers or something).
I also stand by my assessment of Mozilla. They have much in common with "Free Software", but I don't think they 100% share the ideology (which was my intended meaning with the cloak statement, "to wrap yourself in an idea" is going past agreeing with it).
Basically, a bunch of startups are "open source" in name only. That is, they are labeling themselves as open source without paying the piper.
To those startups I say: you don't get to do that. You don't have to publish your hardware designs on the net, but if you don't, you don't get to call yourself open source hardware.
The free software/hardware/culture people must [speak out against companies] who use the brand inappropriately. Failure to do so means dilution of the brand.
I hope you mean something more like "call out" or "identify" or something. Defame has strong connotations of doing something unfair or unethical (in U.S. law, defamation usually starts when someone makes a false statement...).
I think "Free Software", but I don't think they 100% share the ideology is a pretty mild, not at all controversial statement, you'll have to explain further what you mean (or maybe what you think I mean, or...).
What is the ideology of the Free Software movement? If we suppose that Richard Stallman can speak for the movement (and he's frequently asked to do so), then we can just look at some of his writings. [1],[2]
What is the ideology of the Mozilla foundation? Well, as I mentioned, they publish their own manifesto [3] and a spiffy video [4] (marketing, soliciting donations). The Mozilla Licensing Policy [5] links back to gnu.org for the definition of "free software".
So, I suppose it's now time to distill all this information into two lists of bullet points, one for each side, and then compare them. But meanwhile, I got sucked into the Mozilla wiki. Apparently they broadcast their internal meetings online. Neat.
Ok, point to you. If firefox were a GNU project, I think it would not have got EME.
Update:
Thanks for the link. Grr, now I am SURE that GNU would not have implemented it. Firefox is going to ship with a proprietary blob called the CDM, made by Adobe? wtf.
If Mozilla were fully committed to the free software movement, they wouldn't distribute, feature, and even recommend many proprietary add-ons on their own website.
My proposal was to pop the random hordes of "open hardware!! will post links soon!1" folks on Kickstarter in their collective mouths. :)
Not Mozilla. I'm fine with them. In fact, it seems to me that the Mozilla folks aren't just wearing that cloak, they've putting a Free Culture lining in it and wearing it with pride. I repeat, I do not propose punching any Mozillans; I like them.