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I was a very strong supporter of Mozilla in the early days when it was a scrappy nonprofit dependent on donations of time and money from its users (I proudly ga
by whyenot 9y ago
I was a very strong supporter of Mozilla in the early days when it was a scrappy nonprofit dependent on donations of time and money from its users (I proudly gave them both). Today's Mozilla by comparison comes across as bulky and wasteful and to have lost its way. It doesn't in any meaningful way depend on code contributions from outside the organization anymore. It is opaque and unengaged with it's users compared to the old days -- remember the success of the spread Firefox campaign?
I'm not sure what the solution is, but from outside, it seems like Mozilla should become a much leaner, more focused organization. Move out of that cushy building on the SF waterfront to somewhere where your neighbors are ordinary people, have employees want to work for you because they believe in open source and and the open web, not for the trips to Paris and the fat pay packages. Trim down management and all the other fat that has accumulated over the years. It won't happen, of course.