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Firefox Threatens Suicide, Then Backpedals
Mozilla’s change to the Firefox TOU, along with the outrage of Firefox users, caught the immediate attention of media outlets around the world.
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To say that the change from Mozilla was unexpected and unanticipated would be a gross understatement. Anyone should expect Mozilla to, at least by this time (what … well over 20 years later?), have a pretty good understanding of their user base, and the ideals that are important to them. It was almost as if Mozilla was threatening to commit suicide with its poorly implemented rollout of the Firefox TOU agreement. From the outside looking in, this definitely feels like Mozilla’s marketing and legal departments overextended and made a mess of everything. Of course, the “higher ups” had to sign off on this overreach, too.