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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by Nextgrid on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:46AM (#24131021)
There's a difference between politics to improve Internet-related things (like fighting DRM, SOPA, or promoting net neutrality) and other political issues that while important are completely irrelevant to a browser development company.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by Nextgrid on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:34AM (#24141846)
I'd like to add that Mozilla has relatively limited resources and it's more worthwhile for them to focus on issues that are directly related to what they do (the web) instead of unrelated social issues.

Furthermore Mozilla has the expertise, connections and brand when it comes to the web they can use as leverage to solve web-related social/political issues, but might not have much leverage for unrelated issues so the risk/reward ratio will not be in their favor.

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