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From what I've read, the leadership of Mozilla has been taken over by money-minded suits rather than those who understand the mission of Mozilla, and there's a
by ZenoArrow 10y ago
From what I've read, the leadership of Mozilla has been taken over by money-minded suits rather than those who understand the mission of Mozilla, and there's a rift between the engineering team and this leadership. Of course I'm sure the reality is more nuanced than that, and I'm sure there are principled leaders that still remain at Mozilla, but that's the general impression I get. It's not unusual either, for non-profits to become more corporate over time, sadly it's a reflection on what can happen when the financial base of an organisation relies on making money.
- chris_wot 10y agoWell, I really still want tomboy what they stand for. First it was mobile, then it was a project to authenticate, then it was IoT, now... What?
- ZenoArrow 10y agoYou can't reduce a collection of the priorities of individuals down to a single one. Mozilla doesn't have a single direction in the same way Apple or Google don't have a single direction. You can look at the general goal of pushing the web forward if you want, but that idea has many forms of expression. The real problem doesn't come from being confused about what Mozilla 'stands for', it's comes from short term thinking by their leadership. Their products are being undermined by a leadership that doesn't understand their potential worth (both in terms of their importance to the web, and financially to Mozilla). Without leadership that looks long term at what benefits the web and has a vision of how to get there, that leadership will mostly be a hindrance. Thankfully the engineering teams seemed to have struck gold with Rust/Servo (and in ASM.JS's influence on WebAssembly), which should serve Mozilla well as the technical basis for future development.