Re:What happened to Firefox Send?
by jfk13 on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:11AM
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It wasn't a "reasonable speculation". More like pure fiction, simply intended to denigrate the target.
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You criticised their guess as baseless just to follow up by denying their numbers without sources. Only one of you two chose to present a fact without backing it up.
There's also this gesture of assuming that the opponent is motivated by evil intentions, which is almost always wrong.
On topic though: Our conversation could really benefit from some actual numbers. I made a quick search but didn't find anything.
A quick search turned up this for me: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/the-new-firefox-by-the-numb...
It's a bit dated, but at the time of the Quantum release,
> How many authors contributed code?
> More than 700 authors contributed code to Firefox ...
and I guess the majority of those code authors were working for Mozilla.
It seems unlikely there's been a 90% reduction in the engineering effort being put into Firefox in the last couple years.