• zabadoh@ani.social
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    3 months ago

    Could be one of those C-suite power plays:

    Texeira is managing their one profitable product profitably and looks destined to be CEO.

    The old CEO Baker suddenly resigns, and appoints Chambers as (permanent) successor CEO.

    Chambers and/or Baker is in tight with the head of HR Chehak, and gets her to declare that Texeira is physically unfit for his job as Chief Product Officer or any other job at Mozilla.

    Chambers and/or Baker get their wish for Chambers to become CEO;

    Demonstrably competent exec Texeira is essentially out of a job;

    Great success!

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    3 months ago

    “It’s just business”

    -Sociopaths

    It’s amazing the inhumanity that little thought terminating cliche validates. Basically “Just following orders” for capitalists.

    The reality is hurting others for money as the motivation makes hurting others worse not better. I might hurt someone to save my child’s life from certain death in some odd hypothetical, or to avenge my child’s death in another, but hurting people… for money? That’s as monstrous a reason as doing it for fun.

    It’s like we’re taking crazy pills. “Oh, they were cruel and hurt that person? Let’s get them! Ohhhh they did it for private profit, well that’s ok then nevermind!”

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    3 months ago

    Sounds like Mozilla is done for (whether or not they win the suit) and it’s just a matter of time before Firefox ceases to exist. You can’t tell me this level of political corporate bullshit doesn’t scream that they’re intent on destroying the company as fast as they can.

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    Fuck I’m reevaluating my life choices in terms of browsers. I assumed the situation of firefox is what it is because mozilla is morally superior and doesn’t compromise. It now seems like it’s not morally superior at all, so the reason for the current situation of firefox must be just sheer incompetence.

    Dammit.

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      You can probably still use Firefox. It’s FOSS. The same contributors and devs work on it like always.

      And in the end it may fork and become something else, when enough people are fed up with the corpobro bs. But still better than Chrome.

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    3 months ago

    Sounds like some MBA bros and broettes infected the company. I’ll stick with it now but it’s easy as fuck to change browsers these days