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The Ubuntu article is using this Mozilla announcement as its source (I am not saying they say different things, it’s just best to see the source material sometimes).
The article mentions litigation and this might be the important bit, Skyhook Holdings Inc. was acquired by Qualcomm in May 2022.
Skyhook’s business is wifi location and I’m guessing that Mozilla’s been costing them money and Qualcomm might be looking for a little return on investment from its purchase of Skyhook.
I hope there’s an open source project that comes out of this that we can get behind and that this will turn out to be a good thing in the end. Mozilla did say their service was getting worse and it sounds like the litigation might be what’s behind this. I wish Mozilla were better at communicating stuff… oh well, that ain’t gonna change!
The Ubuntu article is using this Mozilla announcement as its source (I am not saying they say different things, it’s just best to see the source material sometimes). The article mentions litigation and this might be the important bit, Skyhook Holdings Inc. was acquired by Qualcomm in May 2022.
Skyhook’s business is wifi location and I’m guessing that Mozilla’s been costing them money and Qualcomm might be looking for a little return on investment from its purchase of Skyhook.
I hope there’s an open source project that comes out of this that we can get behind and that this will turn out to be a good thing in the end. Mozilla did say their service was getting worse and it sounds like the litigation might be what’s behind this. I wish Mozilla were better at communicating stuff… oh well, that ain’t gonna change!