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.
Well let's start at the front.
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.
[1]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-import...
[2]: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html (I particularly like the bit about asteroid mining. What, you haven't read this recently?)
[3]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/
[4]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/
[5]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/licensing/