Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by notyourday on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @12:37PM (#24133781)

> And here is the main point: for some reason Mozilla and their accountants seems to think that Firefox is just a source of income and that their main goal as a non profit is something else, while all the time the most important work they have done to improve the world has been to create an alternative and better browser that isn't owned by big media.

That's idealism.

The difference between a non-profit and a corporation is that while a corporation seeks to provide return to the shareholders, a non-profit seeks to provide a good life to people who run it.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by eitland on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:21PM (#24135720)

But wouldn't it be just as good idealism to go all in for creating a truly good independent browser?

Until three years ago or so I think that's what I thought was the idea of Mozilla.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by notyourday on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:05PM (#24136228)

That would require the organization to be ran by engineers.

This is a non-profit ran by those that raise funds i.e. the non-profit parasite class. Those kinds of non-profits are famous for throwing charity galas that cost $250,000 to produce and raise $260,000.

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