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This is the long-term consequence when you force out a CEO that has an engineering background and replace him with a lawyer over perceived social juatice reason

This is the long-term consequence when you force out a CEO that has an engineering background and replace him with a lawyer over perceived social juatice reasons. The market is now more fragmented (see Brave) and nobody is better off for it.

rvz 6y ago
For Mozilla and its mission, it's over. Why project a mission for supporting privacy when you sign a contract with your closest competitor who goes directly against your own mission? Especially as the default search engine? I don't think they're quite serious about your privacy, more like they are focused on the 'social justice' than generating their own revenue. It seems that they either ruin their own credibility by being a hypocrite or they risk going bankrupt trying to fight for your privacy with products failing generating any sustainable revenue for themselves. Either way, it's in Google's hands. As for the 'social justice reasons' it's a classic side example of going woke will make you and your business broke.
yuhong 6y ago
Which reminds me that even Techrights (formerly Boycott Novell) had Google ads almost 15 years ago. Which is part of why I wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008_financial_crisis_on_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008... in the first place.
ZeroGravitas 6y ago
Or alternatively, what happens when regressive techies take a dislike to your org and bring this up in every thread for a decade afterwards. Congrats, you really showed those social justice warriors by handing the market to Google, who you also hate for being social justice warriors.
TheOperator 6y ago
Eich headed the company for like a week and people pronounce his firing as the sole mistake that took the company down. If Eich is such a god of leadership why aren't we all using Brave? Sure in hindsight maybe it would be nice if there was as much outrage over the CEO driving Mozilla into the ground as there was over Eich's donations. What I saw was Mozilla getting beat when it comes to marketing, product quality, and ecosystem level for years and deciding to stick with a bad CEO for years.

rvz 6y ago

For Mozilla and its mission, it's over. Why project a mission for supporting privacy when you sign a contract with your closest competitor who goes directly against your own mission? Especially as the default search engine? I don't think they're quite serious about your privacy, more like they are focused on the 'social justice' than generating their own revenue. It seems that they either ruin their own credibility by being a hypocrite or they risk going bankrupt trying to fight for your privacy with products failing generating any sustainable revenue for themselves. Either way, it's in Google's hands. As for the 'social justice reasons' it's a classic side example of going woke will make you and your business broke.

yuhong 6y ago

Which reminds me that even Techrights (formerly Boycott Novell) had Google ads almost 15 years ago. Which is part of why I wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008_financial_crisis_on_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008... in the first place.

ZeroGravitas 6y ago

Or alternatively, what happens when regressive techies take a dislike to your org and bring this up in every thread for a decade afterwards. Congrats, you really showed those social justice warriors by handing the market to Google, who you also hate for being social justice warriors.

TheOperator 6y ago

Eich headed the company for like a week and people pronounce his firing as the sole mistake that took the company down. If Eich is such a god of leadership why aren't we all using Brave? Sure in hindsight maybe it would be nice if there was as much outrage over the CEO driving Mozilla into the ground as there was over Eich's donations. What I saw was Mozilla getting beat when it comes to marketing, product quality, and ecosystem level for years and deciding to stick with a bad CEO for years.