Re:MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
by weego on Thursday October 29, 2020 @12:48PM
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It's more the clear mismanagement of their finances on ill-considered products outside of their core offering that never go anywhere. Some of them appear to be nothing more than vanity projects that subsequently disappear having got no traction at all.
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Re:MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
by tracker1 on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:38AM
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I still think they are/were in a great position to offer what is now office365 and google docs earlier on, with a position to offer both dedicated and cloud software options.
They had electron effectively a decade before electron with XULrunner and let it die on the vine.
There were opportunities for developer mindshare and for services adjacent to those tools they were already building... that they didn't do more for getting Thunderbird more competitive to Outlook to offering a better breed of messenger platform.
No, their management sat on fat cash, with fat paychecks and ill-conceived projects that lead to little in terms of mindshare or income longevity.
Re:MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
by airstrike on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:48PM
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Managing is inherently risky –– we shouldn't expect managers to make no mistakes while at the same time expecting them to keep workers around in an unprofitable business would only serve to further harm the business
Sure, one can rant all one wants about management's lack of business acumen, but that's completely separate from the issue of the layoffs