I'm going to draw a line through 1930s agitprop, Ronald Reagan, methane-breathing zombie space aliens, the Mozilla logo, Barack Obama and the International Commiunist Conspiracy. It's a long walk, so please stick with me. Let's start with They Live. I've talked to a number of people recently who haven't seen They Live, and that's a real tragedy, because even though it is technically a sci-fi ...

That was complete bullshit, of course. Yes, I absolutely branded Mozilla.org that way for the subtext of “these free software people are all a bunch of commies.” I was trolling.

Once upon a time, Mozilla was three commies in a trenchcoat.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Once upon a time, Mozilla was three commies in a trenchcoat.

    all great software starts out that way and eventually it gets taken over by the capitalists who enshitifies it for profit. ie explorer and chrome)