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Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by prepend »

pseudalopex wrote: post #361
zug_zug wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if you have a billion in the bank, you can collect 5% return and never touch the money. So you get $50m a year to pay enough engineers to make a browser. That's plenty of money if they recognize they need a super lean company with 0 bloat and a few highly paid experts who focus on correctness and not bullshit features.

How many engineers are enough to make a browser? How do you know? Vivaldi employ 28 developers and 33 others to make an unstable Chromium fork and email program.[1] Bloat and bullshit features to you are minimum requirements to someone else. [1] https://vivaldi.com/team/

Brave has about 300 employees and don’t break out engineers [0]. One of them is Brandon Eich so that counts for a bunch.

Their revenue is only $52M so kinda what Mozilla would earn off their endowment.

[0] https://getlatka.com/companies/brave.com

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by dotancohen »

esafak wrote: post #253
dotancohen wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Translation? Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in my PDF viewer and Office viewer as well. > Image search? Sounds like a web site, not a browser feature. > Live captions? Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in VLC as well. > Dubbing? Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in VLC as well. > Summary? Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this…

So you're not going to get it until your OS decides to, and if its implementation is poor you're SOL?

Choose the implementation that you like, or contribute to help make one better. Just like all other software on your computer.

Don't like Libreoffice's implementation of Word support? Install Koffice. I take it you've never installed non-OEM software on your computer?

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by smt88 »

rvz wrote: post #132
lionkor wrote: post #125

Well Ladybird [0] it is [0]: https://ladybird.org/

And we can at least donate directly to Ladybird's development [0] Unlike Mozilla which Firefox is completely funded with Google's money. [0] https://donorbox.org/ladybird

You can donate to any nonprofit and stipulate that your money be used only for a certain purpose, and they're legally bound by it.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by mattmaroon »

whatever1 wrote: post #371
gkoberger wrote: post #275

Having worked at Mozilla a while ago, the CEO role is one I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Success is oddly defined: it's a non-profit (well, a for-profit owned by a non-profit) that needs to make a big profit in a short amount of time. And anything done to make that profit will annoy the community. I hope Anthony leans into what makes Mozilla special. The past few years, Mozilla's business model has been to just m…

This. I want a password/passkey/auth and bookmark manager that work across platforms and devices.

Don't you have this already? Chrome and Firefox both have these. Devices have solid password manager integration, I use mine across 3 OSes and who knows how many devices.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by cpburns2009 »

thesuitonym wrote: post #356
cpburns2009 wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new tab ads can be disabled with 2 clicks.

I love how quickly the goalpost moves from "No ads" to "Only opt in ads" to "Ads can be disabled with two clicks." Quit coping and just admit it, Brave is adware. If you like it, that's cool, totally your choice. It's fast, performant adware. But it's adware all the same.

Firefox has ads in the same places.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by e584 »

gkoberger wrote: post #275

Having worked at Mozilla a while ago, the CEO role is one I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Success is oddly defined: it's a non-profit (well, a for-profit owned by a non-profit) that needs to make a big profit in a short amount of time. And anything done to make that profit will annoy the community. I hope Anthony leans into what makes Mozilla special. The past few years, Mozilla's business model has been to just m…

The best that Mozilla can do for AI is to make Firefox more headless and scriptable.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by stronglikedan »

this_user wrote: post #141
netdevphoenix wrote: post #118

I love Mozilla but this feels like marketing imo. From the article: "AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off" and "Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser". I highly doubt you will be able to turn of the transformer tech features in an AI browser imo. And they won't make a separate browser for this. This really feels like the beginning of the end for Mozilla…

What even is an "AI browser"? It's a browser, it's mainly supposed to render web pages / web apps. There is no obvious reason why it would need any AI features.

Comet, for one

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by smt88 »

abcd_f wrote: post #11
ecshafer wrote: post #4

It looks like they chose a Product Manager and MBA. Why can't we get a software engineer or computer scientist?

They had one. Until he made a fatal mistake of giving a tenner to the wrong people.

Eich chose to resign due to internal and external protest in the form of petitions and resignations.

No one forced him to do anything, and Mozilla itself certainly didn't force him out.

His free speech was met with the free speech of others, and he decided it was too painful to stay in that spotlight.

How would you prefer it to have gone?

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