The Mozilla Manifesto

I love this statement. What it needs is an addendum explaining how capitalism, in hindsight, does not support this when unless they are profiting, hence removing public resources from the stewardship of private companies.

Google is basically the contemporary poster child of this, but we used to talk about “Ma Bell” and other ICT companies in this way. And also in every era of industry “barony” before, where the few screwed over the rest of us for profit.

This is why I criticize:

You can’t let business and entertainment concerns determine how we create protocols and standards, or we lose.