Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
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Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#2That's the last call for anybody who thinks "it's good that Mozilla exists, and its mission is important, but I'm still using Chrome and derivatives". Mozilla can't exist solely because people think it has a good mission: it needs products that can pay the bills, or at least a large population of active users.
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#3Seeing Mozilla burn fills my heart with joy. Maybe they will be forced to be an actual software dev company instead of a political activist group. But even in this post they had to shove in 'racism' in the headline.
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#4That's the last call for anybody who thinks "it's good that Mozilla exists, and its mission is important, but I'm still using Chrome and derivatives". Mozilla can't exist solely because people think it has a good mission: it needs products that can pay the bills, or at least a large population of active users.
Also, please make a monthly donation to Mozilla if you can. You will contribute to saving the world.
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#5"Focusing Firefox On Users In order to refocus the Firefox organization on core browser growth through differentiated user experiences, we are reducing investment in some areas such as developer tools, internal tooling, and platform feature development, and transitioning adjacent security/privacy products to our New Products and Operations team."
So what is the impact on things like Servo/Rust, and the core browser?
I guess they are setting up for a post-Google-pays-to-keep-us-going world, but not sure that Pocket or Hubs or VPN are going to set the world on fire.
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#6Seeing Mozilla burn fills my heart with joy. Maybe they will be forced to be an actual software dev company instead of a political activist group. But even in this post they had to shove in 'racism' in the headline.
What's wrong with being "a political activist group"?
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#7250 people, roughly 25% of the company, were laid off today.
This is on top of the 70 laid off in January (discussion of that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22057737)
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#8mozilla has double face, i will never trust them
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#9Seeing Mozilla burn fills my heart with joy. Maybe they will be forced to be an actual software dev company instead of a political activist group. But even in this post they had to shove in 'racism' in the headline.
What's wrong with being "a political activist group"?
Skews incentives.
Re: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
#10Seeing Mozilla burn fills my heart with joy. Maybe they will be forced to be an actual software dev company instead of a political activist group. But even in this post they had to shove in 'racism' in the headline.
Fighting racism and fighting for human rights is something that happens to be important when your focus is not only making profit