Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
by dao- on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:26AM
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> no one works at Mozilla for life
Is that a fact? FWIW, I have little to no interest in working for any other tech company.
Re:Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
by trome on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:56AM
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Sure, but quite a few employees are at Mozilla for significant periods of time, and (theoretically) Mozilla doesn't have free reign to run the non-profit into the ground by letting marketshare continue to slip away.
Another perspective a friend recently shared with me is that perhaps it is time for Firefox to go the way of Icedove, Mozilla has taken it pretty far, but it is not its main focus even now, and it can be picked up and developed on into the future (not that there haven't been forks already).
Call me cynical, but Mozilla is made of people. People don't mind making a name for themselves: no one works at Mozilla for life. One might as well prepare for life at tech giants or startups. Firefox is printing money so they can afford the Jonesing (for now).
A less cynical reason is that Mozilla shares the same hiring pool as startups and tech giants and people go back and forth; changing mindsets is hard.