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Eventually Mozilla will probably ditch Firefox as they can’t afford to do any significant development other than UI. They will just make some Chromium distribu

Eventually Mozilla will probably ditch Firefox as they can’t afford to do any significant development other than UI. They will just make some Chromium distribution and wrap it with Rust.

incomingpain 5y ago
>Eventually Mozilla will probably ditch Firefox as they can’t afford to do any significant development other than UI. It's not that they can't afford. They get truckloads of free money every year. The reason they dont have significant development is because they actively attacked their developers and pushed them to other projects. https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202067/mozilla-ceo-chris-beard-reddit-hate-speech https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202067/mozilla-ceo-chris... ""If they are an employee, they will be fired."" The Mozilla CEO went to the press to threaten an anonymous person on the internet with dismissal. >And regardless, either way, they are not welcome to continue to participate in the Mozilla project. It is not who we are." Lets say you dont even agree and even believe this anonymous person was hate speech. You can't stay with the project after the CEO does this crazy shit. Mozilla lost the talent they needed to make improvements to firefox.
- pipeline_peak 5y ago
  It's a mix of strict politics and financial problems. Millions of dollars may sound like a lot, but those are some of their only sources of income and they rarely seem viable. Google has hired Lars Bak and many distinguished WebKit and Runtime environment developers to make a high performance browser. They're practically leading the standards, the aging Gecko/SpiderMonkey codebase can't keep up because no one feels secure working for a dying company that likely doesn't have a competitive salary. That combined with how little a development team there is to work with. To work on the technical side of Firefox is philanthropic at this point, to steer away from Chromium dominance.
- polski-g 5y ago
  California companies cannot fire employees for their political beliefs. So that the CEO would admit to doing just that is a bit funny.
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > California companies cannot fire employees for their political beliefs. They can, however, fire people for creating a hostile environment for other emoloyees who report of workplace issues of discrimination on federally protected bases. In fact, they can under federal law be held liable for not taking sufficient action to prevent and respond to that kind of behavior.

Eventually Mozilla will probably ditch Firefox as they can’t afford to do any significant development other than UI. They will just make some Chromium distribution and wrap it with Rust.

incomingpain 5y ago

>Eventually Mozilla will probably ditch Firefox as they can’t afford to do any significant development other than UI. It's not that they can't afford. They get truckloads of free money every year. The reason they dont have significant development is because they actively attacked their developers and pushed them to other projects. https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202067/mozilla-ceo-chris-beard-reddit-hate-speech https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202067/mozilla-ceo-chris... ""If they are an employee, they will be fired."" The Mozilla CEO went to the press to threaten an anonymous person on the internet with dismissal. >And regardless, either way, they are not welcome to continue to participate in the Mozilla project. It is not who we are." Lets say you dont even agree and even believe this anonymous person was hate speech. You can't stay with the project after the CEO does this crazy shit. Mozilla lost the talent they needed to make improvements to firefox.

pipeline_peak 5y ago
It's a mix of strict politics and financial problems. Millions of dollars may sound like a lot, but those are some of their only sources of income and they rarely seem viable. Google has hired Lars Bak and many distinguished WebKit and Runtime environment developers to make a high performance browser. They're practically leading the standards, the aging Gecko/SpiderMonkey codebase can't keep up because no one feels secure working for a dying company that likely doesn't have a competitive salary. That combined with how little a development team there is to work with. To work on the technical side of Firefox is philanthropic at this point, to steer away from Chromium dominance.
polski-g 5y ago
California companies cannot fire employees for their political beliefs. So that the CEO would admit to doing just that is a bit funny.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > California companies cannot fire employees for their political beliefs. They can, however, fire people for creating a hostile environment for other emoloyees who report of workplace issues of discrimination on federally protected bases. In fact, they can under federal law be held liable for not taking sufficient action to prevent and respond to that kind of behavior.