According to its Mozilla wiki page, the Open Standard will "explore the role of openness and transparency in all aspects of society". Since the writing of that wiki page, the article "Welcome to The Open Standard" has been published, so The Open Standard (how it got its name here) is officially launched.
From its start, Mozilla has advocated for the open, transparent and collaborative systems at work in our daily lives. This is the next step in that mission.
We advocate that open systems create healthier communities and more successful societies overall. We will cover everything from open source to open government and the need for transparency; privacy and security, the “Internet of Things” vs. “pervasive computing”, to education and if it’s keeping up with the technological changes. The bottom line? Open is better.
This is just the beginning. Over the next few months, The Open Standard will open itself to collaboration with you, our readers; everything from contributing to the site, to drawing our attention to uncovered issues, to crowdsourcing the news.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Monday October 27 2014, @02:53PM
I think we're going to be wishing for an open payment standard with all of the silliness and greed going on relating to NFC and smartphone payment systems.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 27 2014, @02:55PM
Great, they managed to make a page that loads slower and is less responsive than Facebook. Impressive in a pathetic sort of way.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Monday October 27 2014, @03:25PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @03:32PM
Oh come on!
You ask too much.
A heavy weight browser with tons of apps and addons built in, that doesn't suck, is a more realistic request.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday October 27 2014, @04:22PM
s/realistic/self-contradictory.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by WillR on Monday October 27 2014, @04:30PM
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday October 27 2014, @05:22PM
That would be an extra dimensional out of body experience ..! :P
Perhaps it could just work and not loose memory blocks. Have some block/white list for javaterror. Dito for cookies. Limit memory allocations for images. And no default search to the "do no privacy".. Oh well.... pipe dream ;-)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Arik on Monday October 27 2014, @04:24PM
(I suspect they have some crazy ecmascript nonsense that's causing you trouble - but the page does appear to degrade gracefully into something usable when that permission is denied.)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @05:25PM
Works OK for me with noscript (same as I browse all sites).
(Score: 2) by everdred on Monday October 27 2014, @08:45PM
The RSS feed is nice and fast (and full-text, to boot).
(Score: 5, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday October 27 2014, @03:57PM
> We will cover everything from open source to open government
Oh we got both kinds: Country *and* Western...
"Everything from ... to ..." is usually used to indicate a wide spectrum of varied things. From Open source to Open government actually seems to me to be a pretty focussed, narrow selection of related topics. NTTAWWT of course - If that's what Mozilla wants to do then good luck to them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @04:27PM
Will they post content that is critical of Mozilla and its products?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @04:45PM
Of course, exclusively!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @08:28PM
Instead of silly rabbit-hole projects like this "news" site, I wish Mozilla would put some energy into FireFox and Thunderbird development. And not silly change for the sake of change either, but real UI and security advances.
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Monday October 27 2014, @10:11PM
+1 to this, as well as the fact that you just saved me from having to post a comment about mission creep.
I'd just like this brief moment on the soapbox to point out that mission creep is taking a serious toll on open source projects.
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @11:05PM
This is the kind of problem that corrects itself. As the product quality decreases, the users flee, and the project withers and dies.
Unless we see a serious change of direction, I don't think that Mozilla will exist in five years. They've driven away too many Firefox users, and Firefox is their only successful project. Everything else they've worked on has pretty much failed.
Without people using Firefox, they won't be able to get the bulk of their funding from Google. Without the money coming in, all of their projects will rot away to nothing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 28 2014, @04:44AM
That 5 yr rule again !