For quite a while I’ve read a blog by a certain prominent member of the Mozilla Foundation. As well as discussing Mozilla development it covers several other topics that are of interest to me, including things like space exploration. In the past six months, however, I’ve found that the posts about Mozilla have all fallen into two categories: arrogant, churlish cheerleading (with snide comments about other browsers) and spreading FUD (with a lot more mean-spiritedness). Both are getting really tiresome, and it’s sad to see a high-signal blog self-destruct in an extended series of almost content-free posts. I don’t have a lot of use for propaganda at the best of times, and the degeneration of this individual’s site makes me want to do nothing more than switch to something managed by people with a lot less zombified glaze over their eyes.
Perhaps I’ll just drop the site from my aggregator and see if my attitude changes. I do like using and developing (as much as I can, anyway) for Firefox and Thunderbird, I just can’t stand the noise any longer.
