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It's already been addressed that individual teams at Mozilla have more specific goals with more actionable metrics, but in Mozilla's case I disagree that engine
by rhelmer 13y ago
It's already been addressed that individual teams at Mozilla have more specific goals with more actionable metrics, but in Mozilla's case I disagree that engineers cannot sign up users. Firefox didn't have a sales team to get its current marketshare.
We do it in person for friends and family, we do it through discussion and diagnosing problems on hackernews and twitter etc.
Source: I work in Mozilla engineering and I help people out online and offline with Firefox all the time, clear up misconceptions people have etc.
- camus2 13y agoFirefox succeed because it was so obvious to people that IE sucked, period. IE was a shitty product, MSFT did not care. Firefox with it's tabs,it's plugins was a natural choice for internet users.It was faster,more reliable and gave the best experience.No need for a sales team to promote that. By the way i think that without Mozilla there would have been no Google success story,but that's a discussion for another time...;) The envirronment is much more different today.
- rhelmer 13y agoA lot of non-technical people use Firefox - somebody had to introduce them. If it was just about IE not being good and tabs, why not Opera? Mozilla had (and still has) a lot of people spreading the word - the Spread Firefox campaign was very popular, as was the crowdfunded New York Times ad: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-places-two-page-advocacy-ad-in-the-new-york-times/ https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...