I’m not happy with how Mozilla leadership has navigated the ship, but what is the alternative? If Mozilla dies, there isn’t enough funding for one of the forks to take over the browser.
They had many years to develop alternative sources of income instead of relying solely on Google. But instead, they’ve been chasing every trend set by big corporations for no clear reason. I really dislike their CEO and the entire leadership team — they’re destroying Mozilla from the inside. Rather than implementing a recovery plan, which they could’ve done years ago, they allowed the company to remain dependent on Google.
From what I know, internal relationships among coworkers are poor. People either do whatever they want or nothing at all. If you try to bring new ideas to the CEO and you’re not close to them, you’re basically fucked up
With an organization being managed like this, there’s no path forward other than continued decline. Sadly, Mozilla is likely to die for all the reasons mentioned above
That Steve Teixeira guy seems all right. He successfully lead profitable division and fought against his employees getting laid off …aaaand he’s laid off too.
I for one would love to throw money at Mozilla, or any alternative, that has experienced developers behind it, doesn’t have conflicts of interest and acts on behalf of its users. This is why I donate to Servo, Ladybird and Dillo too (I know one of these is not like the others 😄).
I don’t think they’d reach their current levels of funding through donations, but it might be possible to get enough together to keep it on life support.
I know this wouldn’t be perfect, but surely better than losing it completely.
I’m not happy with how Mozilla leadership has navigated the ship, but what is the alternative? If Mozilla dies, there isn’t enough funding for one of the forks to take over the browser.
They had many years to develop alternative sources of income instead of relying solely on Google. But instead, they’ve been chasing every trend set by big corporations for no clear reason. I really dislike their CEO and the entire leadership team — they’re destroying Mozilla from the inside. Rather than implementing a recovery plan, which they could’ve done years ago, they allowed the company to remain dependent on Google. From what I know, internal relationships among coworkers are poor. People either do whatever they want or nothing at all. If you try to bring new ideas to the CEO and you’re not close to them, you’re basically fucked up With an organization being managed like this, there’s no path forward other than continued decline. Sadly, Mozilla is likely to die for all the reasons mentioned above
Yup, I think this is the root cause for Mozilla’s inevitable failure: the wrong management for the job.
That Steve Teixeira guy seems all right. He successfully lead profitable division and fought against his employees getting laid off …aaaand he’s laid off too.
I for one would love to throw money at Mozilla, or any alternative, that has experienced developers behind it, doesn’t have conflicts of interest and acts on behalf of its users. This is why I donate to Servo, Ladybird and Dillo too (I know one of these is not like the others 😄).
I don’t think they’d reach their current levels of funding through donations, but it might be possible to get enough together to keep it on life support.
I know this wouldn’t be perfect, but surely better than losing it completely.
No planned windows support though 🫤
That’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s not gonna get very far then lol
Actually they say in 2028 they will have ladybird production version on windows
Nice