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I think Mozilla wasted some effort on some questionable initiatives, like Firefox OS. They became a little complacent and didn't put money(?) where their mouth
by b0rsuk 9y ago
I think Mozilla wasted some effort on some questionable initiatives, like Firefox OS. They became a little complacent and didn't put money(?) where their mouth is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products
In particular, check out the list of their abandoned projects. But some experimentation is necessary. You're never completely sure when you strike gold.
- johansch 9y agoMaybe the complacency came from having too much money from the first rounds of Google search deals in like 2004-2008? They had already fulfilled their primary goals (openness, transparency etc.)... I worked at Opera Software between 2004-2015. We also got loads of Google search placement money in that period, but for all of their other faults, our exec team(s) were able to keep us hungry for more.
- digi_owl 9y agoPossibly. FOSS projects are notorious for going with rewrites rather than throttle back and maintain what is already there.
- digi_owl 9y agoEffectively Mozilla, like a growing number of big name FOSS projects, got hijacked by SJW busybodies wanting to pad their resume. Thus they spun up a bunch of "social consciousness" projects that sapped time and resources. And now they have decided that to make Firefox competitive they have to throw out all that made Firefox distinct, and clone Chrome behavior by behavior. Just watch them up and decide that maintaining their own engine will be too much and go Blink in a few years...
- sctb 9y agoThis is not the kind of civil and substantive comment we're here for. If you'd like to make such a claim, please leave out the insults and include some tether to reality so we can learn something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html