Should have dropped the “AI” division instead
Of all the stupid money pit projects they could drop and focus on Firefox and Thunderbird… they drop privacy advocacy. Might as well drop the browser engine and MDN, to ensure Mozilla loses ALL positive impact on the world, yeah???
They fired many MDN writers a few years back.
This is sad, not just because it’s a trend on Mozilla, but because it shows how mozilla has embraced the corporative kind of mindset. The advocacy team was fundamental for net free principles.
Mozilla based browsers keep being the only practical alternative to web browser dominance, but it itself has degrading its status of resisting bad practices against users and the web in general. And emerging alternatives are also technical alternatives only, with no intention of net freedom advocacy, GPL sort of principles to protect the user and so on.
Sad days indeed, :/
there’s nothing stopping the mozilla project from going closed source at this point, i hope Servo replaces it
Servo
what’s servo?
It is a Browser Engine. This: https://servo.org/
There is also Ladybird: https://ladybird.org/
The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and equitable technical future for us all.
and you close group that make public impact?
advocacy is still a central tenet of Mozilla Foundation’s work and will be embedded in all the other functional areas
that mean they dilute group across mozilla?
We find ourselves in a relentless onslaught of change in the technology (and broader) world, and the idea of putting people before profit feels increasingly radical.
so not be capitalist asshole radical? why you not radical mozilla?
Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting time requires laser focus — and sometimes saying goodbye to the excellent work that has gotten us this far because it won’t get us to the next peak. Lofty goals demand hard choices
if goal so high that need to layoff, maybe just set goal lower?
putting people before profit feels increasingly radical.
OMFG they actually said that…
I am actually really glad to see this happen, Mozilla needs a massive refocus on what actually matters (Firefox, Thunderbird, new tech etc).
there was once a time when mozilla was at the fore front of tech development and they were churning out extremely cool tech one after the other. Servo, DeepSpeech, Firefox reality (wolvic is the successor in case anyone was wondering), a TV browser (Why did they have to kill this of all things off T.T) and others.
I want to see mozilla put more focus, and more importantly, a larger portion of the money they receive on actually doing things.
