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Oh, the negativity. Look, Mozilla's far from perfect, but I absolutely do want to see them trying something with every new thing that comes out and will contin
by jrm4 3y ago
Oh, the negativity.
Look, Mozilla's far from perfect, but I absolutely do want to see them trying something with every new thing that comes out and will continue to throw a little money at them every time they do so.
It's just broadly important to remind the world that there are more ways than "typical capitalism" to do big things in tech.
- GuB-42 3y agoFor me, Mozilla has one very important job, and that's to make a browser. And they are not doing a terrific job right now, they have been losing market share year after year. And sure, you can give me the argument of "but it is the defaults, and ads, and Google, ...", but if they were really good, they wouldn't lose market share, in fact, they took a good chunk of IE back in the days, so much that the joke was that the only purpose of IE was to download Firefox. So until Firefox become the clearly better browser (like in the IE days) I wish for Mozilla to focus on that and leave AI and other certainly worthy causes to another organization, because the other organizations will not make a browser that is not a chromium fork. Mozilla can get a pass if that's to make money they can invest in the browser, or tech that has direct applications in the making a browser (like Rust). But the AI thing looks like it is neither. So for me it is money that will not go into fixing bugs in Firefox and as a Firefox user, it annoys me.