Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by staktrace on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:04PM (#24121882)

I don't see how losing Firefox would end up with an "even more silo'd, broken up Internet". Firefox can't fight that by itself so just having Firefox by itself isn't going to make much of a difference to what Big Tech is going to do with the Internet.

But anyway, you're entitled to your opinion.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by stingraycharles on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:40PM (#24122338)

> Firefox can't fight that by itself

Why do you say this? Because this is exactly what I expect Mozilla/Firefox to do.

IE, Chrome and Opera all use the Chromium engine. Safari is locked into the Apple ecosystem. And as such, it’s imperative Firefox fights this battle, with all the resources and community support they can get. Otherwise we do end up with a Chromium-only silo very quickly.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by staktrace on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @01:01PM (#24122642)

This is a relatively narrow view of the Internet, though. You're talking about a web-standards silo kind of thing, which I agree is bad, but is not the sum total of the problems affecting the Internet. See https://internethealthreport.org/2019/ for some more context on what I'm trying to convey. I don't agree with everything in that report, but hopefully it demonstrates that there are threats to the Internet that Firefox can't fix just by being a great browser.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by jacquesm on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:49PM (#24124250)

Mozilla can't afford a war on so many fronts at the same time. It can maybe afford one. Maybe.

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