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I would guess most people at Mozilla are just trying to earn a living and weren’t in it for any deeper philosophical reason. They pay very well.
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#22Given how different their missions are, I'm surprised to see Facebook on this list.
This comment really demonstrates the divide between those with a casual working understanding of Mozilla due to peripheral awareness vs those who are or were once heavily involved with the project. (Side note: it's hard to read discussions about Mozilla on HN for this reason.)
Mozillians at Facebook is not new or novel. There was a time when it seemed like everyone was leaving Mozilla for Facebook. If someone collected the data, tallying every subsequent company worked at for every employee departed, it would be would be pretty unsurprising if the results showed Facebook as the biggest employer of former Mozillians.
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#23Can't open the link in Firefox, ironically. SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error on the cert.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, they need to hire, Mozillians need jobs, typically people who make what a Mozillian made will have a lifestyle that demands they find a new job pretty quickly, so they may not get to be that picky.
Capitalism 101.
Ethics is great and all until the money stops flowing
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#25I hope the formerly Mozilla employees all find roles quickly, but I suspect that well more than 250 employees have been laid off since the beginning of the pandemic. Is there a particular reason why these layoffs need exceptional response?
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#26It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.
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#27Does anyone know how the 3d effect in the header was achieved?
It's all just CSS animations.
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#28fyi for the people involved in this: use of a mozilla trademark in a domain name is subject to the mozilla (tm) trademark policy: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ I hope your project doesn't run afoul of this :)
Eh they laid off a bunch of their lawyers so I should be good.
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#29It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.
If revenue from Firefox isn't enough to pay the bills anymore, then not funding R&D is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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#30I hope the formerly Mozilla employees all find roles quickly, but I suspect that well more than 250 employees have been laid off since the beginning of the pandemic. Is there a particular reason why these layoffs need exceptional response?
I was thinking the same thing. In addition, there have been a ton of tech/startup related layoffs, its odd that this one is getting so much attention and support from the community.
Edit: Perhaps I'm a bit bitter, as I was laid off because of the pandemic after 4+ years at my previous employer, and left on my own to figure things out. I imagine the experience was the same for others in a similar situation.