Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by _the_inflator on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:24PM
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Yes, I agree.
And the best product is a product that is useful to users.
To me, Mozilla felt like an ideology and not so much like a browser. That repelled me from Mozilla. I was annoyed by their attitude and puns toward Chrome, especially the prefix war and the comparison between IE6 and Chrome. That was way too much for me, even though they had a point. Ironically one of their evangelists, that made a lot of noise against Chrome, later moved on to Microsoft.
Microsoft has settled the prefix war in the way that they adopted Chromium.
Coming from Netscape, which I loved, and going through almost every iteration of the Internet and browsers, Mozilla feels like Assembler or C to me. Yes, Assembler was cool when you had your C64, and yes, you can do everything with C, but that is not the point. People need to get a job done, and yes, automated Garbage Collection is ok most of the time - I mean you Java, C#, Python, etc.
Maybe the comparison is not the best, but Mozilla's priority seems right this time: new product(s).
And the best product is a product that is useful to users.
To me, Mozilla felt like an ideology and not so much like a browser. That repelled me from Mozilla. I was annoyed by their attitude and puns toward Chrome, especially the prefix war and the comparison between IE6 and Chrome. That was way too much for me, even though they had a point. Ironically one of their evangelists, that made a lot of noise against Chrome, later moved on to Microsoft.
Microsoft has settled the prefix war in the way that they adopted Chromium.
Coming from Netscape, which I loved, and going through almost every iteration of the Internet and browsers, Mozilla feels like Assembler or C to me. Yes, Assembler was cool when you had your C64, and yes, you can do everything with C, but that is not the point. People need to get a job done, and yes, automated Garbage Collection is ok most of the time - I mean you Java, C#, Python, etc.
Maybe the comparison is not the best, but Mozilla's priority seems right this time: new product(s).
Best of luck, Mozilla!