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Pledged! (My email address is available via my profile.) But also, for the 1st part, LOL! (IMO, HN needs to learn to laugh at itself from time-to-time.) And a

Pledged! (My email address is available via my profile.) But also, for the 1st part, LOL! (IMO, HN needs to learn to laugh at itself from time-to-time.) And also, for the 2nd part, thank you for organizing this. Because I'm bootstrapping for my retirement fund, I'm not particularly flush for cash, and so too often I'm a freeloader. This is great though - I hope you get it together. One final thought is that Mozilla executives don't really deserve to be the custodians of MDN anymore, and so perhaps as a community we need to be looking for ways to liberate MDN from Mozilla. For example, the technical writer, rather than being a Mozilla employee, could be an independent MDN contributor collaborating with Mozillla employees, and contributing under CC-BY-SA 2.5. [0] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/About https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/About

lioeters 6y ago
> Mozilla executives don't really deserve to be the custodians of MDN anymore Whatever financial/operational reasons there were for the recent cutbacks, the current situation of MDN (and Firefox) confirms my doubt and distrust of the leadership and management. It's been terrible for their reputation. Of course, as a for-profit, they're free to prioritize business and financial sustainability. But the decisions they implemented - and how they went about it - seemed to have no respect for what makes Mozilla actually valuable (not just in terms of profit, but in social good and long-term role in the market). They should have started by eliminating the bloat from the top, instead of laying off hard-working teams, experts and specialists that produced the real value. In the end, if these projects can adapt and survive, it might turn out to be a good thing, to become more community-supported and independent of Mozilla. On the other hand, it seems natural for Google or Microsoft to swoop in as "evangelists of the open web" and take these projects under their (massively funded) wings.

lioeters 6y ago

> Mozilla executives don't really deserve to be the custodians of MDN anymore Whatever financial/operational reasons there were for the recent cutbacks, the current situation of MDN (and Firefox) confirms my doubt and distrust of the leadership and management. It's been terrible for their reputation. Of course, as a for-profit, they're free to prioritize business and financial sustainability. But the decisions they implemented - and how they went about it - seemed to have no respect for what makes Mozilla actually valuable (not just in terms of profit, but in social good and long-term role in the market). They should have started by eliminating the bloat from the top, instead of laying off hard-working teams, experts and specialists that produced the real value. In the end, if these projects can adapt and survive, it might turn out to be a good thing, to become more community-supported and independent of Mozilla. On the other hand, it seems natural for Google or Microsoft to swoop in as "evangelists of the open web" and take these projects under their (massively funded) wings.