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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by takluyver on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:36PM (#24122299)
At the moment, it looks a lot like they're losing a competitive browser despite putting a lot of effort into the technology - either because Google competes unfairly, or because it just has more resources to compete with fairly. So it seems reasonable to look for other approaches to support the open internet.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by anonymousab on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:34PM (#24124921)
Every major lauded technical achievement has been followed by a series of community and PR missteps. I'd wager those have mostly affected the power users more than the average user, but I suspect continually driving the power users away in this manner will hurt them more than it helps them.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by jacquesm on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @01:37PM (#24123154)
> either because Google competes unfairly, or because it just has more resources to compete with fairly

Both, actually.

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