[svlug] (forw) [DNG] Life After Firefox 56

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Greg Lindahl (lindahl at pbm.com):

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 03:21:46PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> > [1] In corporate-speak, Mozilla, Inc. refers to this issue as one of
> > 'protection against malware'.
> 
> Maybe I've become corporate since I moved here, but after cleaning
> malware (frequently including side-loaded Firefox extensions) off of
> numerous relatives' and friends' computers, I am 100% in favor of FF
> being able to decide that their brand means "resists side-loading even
> if that slightly inconveniences power users like me." Because it's
> going to be a big help to my relatives and friends.

I definitely see huge merit in that, believe me -- and I apologise if 
I seemed to suggest otherwise.  I think I took the time to say in that
very same footnote, immediately below where you stopped quoting, that I 
sympathise with Mozilla, Inc.'s legitimate concerns.  (/me checks.)
Um, yes, I did say exactly that.

Clearly, the open source community's need to be able to sign its own
code and Mozilla, Inc.'s need to ensure integrity for its corporate (and
similar) customers can both be, and are, valid concerns, right?


As a follow-up and correction to my original post, I _meant_ to revise
my reference to poster 'golinux at dyne.org' from 'he' to 'he or she', but
failed to do so before posting.  I apologise forthe sexist assumption.