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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by seppel on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:20PM (#24123778)
> You simply can not fight such a war and win, you can only lose gracefully.

Of course you can, as it was shown by FF winning against the preinstalled IE a decade ago. Users were happiliy switching away, because FF was just the better browser.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by jacquesm on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:25PM (#24124790)
That was a time when Mozilla was focused on Firefox and Thunderbird, two programs that were at that time best in class. The times have - as the article headline suggests - changed since then.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by seppel on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:49PM (#24125130)
Yes, which is incredibly sad. Both, that they no longer have the best product and that they no longer try.
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