It should be said that licensing the WordPress trademark to other companies would obviously be a massive cash opportunity. But since the Foundation and Automattic are already so inextricably intertwined, and controlled by one person, it raises some serious, potentially even IRS-level questions of where that money would be going, exactly. (I’m not a lawyer or a tax expert. It’s just that using a nonprofit to help create a monopoly that funnels money to your own for-profit company, which doesn’t have to pay the nonprofit like the other businesses do because you run both of them, just sounds like the kind of thing federal agencies might be interested in.)
Yeah this looks a lot worse and shadier than whatever Mozilla is cooking with their Foundation / Corporation split lol. At least from what I understand from Mozilla's structure, the money seem to always end up in the Foundation (so the Corporation is just another front to fundraise), while here it's the opposite
I would've suggested self-hosting the sync, but god, trying to self-host Firefox Sync looks like a nightmare. Not only do you have to build the Sync 1.5 server, you also need to build the authentication server which is separate.. Really glad Pale Moon never adopted that and stuck with Weave/Sync 1.1 (even though it uses a mozilla-esr 52 base which long abandoned Weave, it's cool they got it back during the forking). Even if the sync server gets compromised it's guaranteed they will never be able to read your synced data, because the decryption key is never sent to the server (only the data in encrypted form is) and the encryption/decryption is done locally. This is very unlike Sync nowadays with Firefox where convenience seems to have trumped over security (anyone who has your Firefox Accounts password can retrieve the decryption key for the data stored in the Firefox Sync server)...
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Reply to comment by emma in If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed by neku
the admins should change his username to crouton if he does come here lol