Comment by ZeroGravitas
3 years ago
Bear in mind a lot of it is just concern trolling.
Many of the people saying this have as much interest in improving the things they complain about as anti-renewable comments have a genuine interest in reducing bird fatalities.
Mozilla (and Wikipedia as mentioned by the OP) have been subjected to a long running culture war boycott.
Similar to wind power, I'd guess their continued success in the face of this contributes to the feelings of anger towards them.
How is it "concern trolling" to point out that Mozilla is kept alive by Google and unable to allocate funds appropriately? I am a Firefox user and I want Mozilla do be serious competition against Google.
The concerns are legitimate and ofen raised by people who genuinely want Mozilla to be better. Accusing people of concern trolling when they point out legitimate issues is a sure way to never get these issues fixed.
>Similar to wind power, I'd guess their continued success in the face of this contributes to the feelings of anger towards them.
This is such an abysmal mindset. Both Mozilla and Wikipedia should operate with the goal of improving their product. Both are severely mismanaging funds away from the things people actually care about. The only things they really are successful in is raising funds.
Success for Mozilla is having a popular, open, sustainably funded and independent browser. In this regard they are a failure, but I absolutely don't want them to be.
Wikipedia is just trolling suckers into giving them money by pretending they are about to go under, when they are extremely well funded, so much so that huge amounts of funds vanish into undisclosed webs of charities.