• heavyboots@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    They need to get the fuck rid of that executive. Whoever has been running FF the last couple years has done a terrible job in picking directions for them to go, IMHO.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      The problem lies in the board and the company culture

      They’ve gone though enough CEOs for me to suspect that there is a bigger issue.

    • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world
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      Despite those choices, I’m not sure there were many other directions that could ever bring in the profits that Google does.

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        What the fuck would a non profit need to pull google level profits for?

        Mozilla should have been a gatekeeper for open web standards and made a browser that catered exactly to that. The rest is window-dressing.

        What did they do with the Google money, tho? Eye-watering packages for their MBA/Lawyer executives and compromise after compromise with DRM peddlers in the name of “market cap”.

        Fuck em, and let it be a lesson for other non-profits. FSF doesn’t seem to be any worse off for not paying cOmPetiTiVe rAtEs to get some clueless execs to betray the mission to chase trends and funds.

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          I don’t see how being a non-profit suddenly makes it cheaper to build a secure, modern and compatible browser. (Although I know lots of people underestimate how much effort that takes. But just consider that already Mozilla’s doing it for far less money than Google invests in Chrome, for example.)

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            Running a community-centred nonprofit is inherently more efficient resources-wise than paying managers and execs piles upon piles of cash in a for-profit scheme

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              16 hours ago

              That’s the kind of thing that sounds nice, but in practice I don’t think that’s what evidence points towards.