Tomorrow the Mozilla Foundation turns 25 and, like many people, it knows what it wants and, what he wants is money. What are you going to spend it on? In its Artificial Intelligence project.
If you can spare $25 every month and are willing to share it with an open source project, Please note that it will not be used to create a better browser capable of challenging Google Chrome's monopoly. The idea is to create open source Artificial Intelligence applications.
What will Mozilla do with your $25 a month?
The email, signed by the Foundation's executive director, Mark Surman can be read:
Mozilla turns 25 tomorrow. We have been fighting for the future of the Internet for a quarter of a century. And that future is now.
And, looking ahead to the next 25 years, it is clear that we can and must do much more. We are at the beginning of a new wave of AI-powered Internet technology that is both dazzling and troubling. Although technological advances are new, the questions and answers we can offer at Mozilla are familiar.
For example, we have recently seen a new wave of AI that has enormous potential to enrich people's lives. But it will only do so if we design the technology very differently from what we've seen big players roll out in recent months. So we're doing what we've always done: fostering a community that builds technology differently, focusing on people over profit.
Mozilla's ongoing research to uncover the damage caused by AI is more important than ever. Your support drives this work forward and allows us to directly lobby companies to change harmful practices, and advocate for strengthening and enforcing existing regulations and laws to protect people around the world.
We believe the Internet was built by people for people, and its future must be determined by the people who use the Internet, not a few powerful organizations.
If you'd like to show your support for our continued work towards trustworthy AI, join us today with your most generous birthday gift ever. Can you donate $25 a month in honor of our 25th anniversary?
Help us make our vision of a better Internet a reality now. We've changed the course of technology in the past and will continue to do so with your support – we hope you'll join us.
The donation is made in the equivalent in local currency of each country and, you can choose to make it once or on a recurring basis by choosing the amount (Minimum 25 dollars). Payment can be by credit card, Paypal or Google Pay.
A Little History
When, at the end of the 90s, Internet Explorer began to take over the spacecraft market,gators, Netscape open-sourced their browser and created the so-called Project Mozilla. In 2003 AOL, the company that owns Netscape decided to withdraw from the project, so the Mozilla Foundation was created to continue it.
The first version of the browser was released in 2002. with the name of Phoenix (Phoenix). Later it was renamed Firefox (literally fire bird). However, the animal in the logo is a red panda also known as Firefox.
The first version of the Thunderbird email client was released in 2004. which from 2012 passed into the hands of its own community.
In recent years, the Foundation it was called into question for concentrating on political and social issues rather than trying to reverse the brutal loss of market share. In between, it had the resounding failure of its mobile operating system.
I don't have $25 a month, but if I did, I can think of many projects that would manage it better than the current management of the Mozilla Foundation. I have already said it many times and I maintain it, when politics is privileged over technique, we lose users.