The Mozilla Digital Memory Bank is an interactive archive that allows you to contribute your images and experiences with Mozilla products, as well as to browse the histories left by others.
Mozilla says that their goal is to have the open Internet and all that kind of thing, rather than one browser. Although, I don’t know what they would do if Firefox became fifty percent usage. Would they say, okay, that’s enough, we’ve done what we need to do, or would they keep going to get up to a higher level?
read moreIn general they are a public service by their very nature, but sometimes they are hijacked for other purposes. For example, a company will leverage a community to get/produce software to get a competitive advantage over their competitors. Ignoring the issue of whether developers should get paid for their work, they should examine their motivation.
read moreBasically, open source is about collaboratively creating something that everyone owns, and the things you own, you tend to care about. Of course, there are many people that just want to have things their way and complain as much as they can to get their point across, but I wouldn't call them contributors.
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