I gave the Grsecurity anecdote to try to explain what I see as the weirdness surrounding the fact that Firefox as distributed by Mozilla is governed by both the source code license and its new ToS that adds new restrictions to the distributed product.

Clearly the uncompiled source code is open source and governed under an open source license.

Do you see Mozilla as displaying “aggression” and is their imposition of the ToS “rage baiting”? Mozilla made changes to the status quo. If the situation changes, are people not supposed to react?

I wonder if you will get excoriated for this opinion, since I had to respond to people in my last post with an update because people were adamant that Firefox was open source. 😼

I have no idea what prompted them to shift their position - I just know that they shifted. Look at the release notes and the support pages if you disagree. There is clearly a change.

Yes, it sends data by default - but you can disable that. Not so for Firefox Labs.