– managing to alienate a part of their most loyal userbase by forcing on them UI redesigns and API changes – no desire to support software that has a large, well established user base but brings in little money (TB)
– dropping some of the aforementioned products after sinking lots of money in them (mobile OS) – choosing to develop a haphazard lot of products with no clear relationship between them except for ‘fostering the open web’, then realizing that most of those have strong commercial competitors and need long-term investment to gain any market share – did not manage to wean itself from the Google donation, which is a huge liability with the FF market share dwindling – the salary of the CEO is completely out of line with (my) expectations for a nonprofit-like org The fact that it is a US corporation and not just a non-profit is a tell-tale sign -), but it also has been behaving like a ‘normal’ company for quite a while.Ĭompanies building open source products are not necessarily evil or “bad”, but in this case, for all the lofty goals and rhetorical speeches, they seem to lack focus and make a lot of questionable decisions… Eg: I think that Mozilla has always been a business. That will be an immense shock, and it could easily spell the end of the Mozilla Foundation in its current form – and thus the continued viability of Firefox. There’s hints that the deal with Google – wherein Google contributes about 90% of Mozilla’s revenue to be the default search engine in Firefox – might expire and not be renewed at the end of this year, which would effectively cut all of Mozilla’s revenue off. There’s nothing concrete here, no announcements, no goals or targets – just vague evergreen wording. That being said, I have no idea what to make of this corporate speak word soup, and it’s hard to parse what, exactly, is going to change from here on out. I feel for the 250 laid off employees – that always sucks and I hope they will be able to find a new job quickly. This is a humbling recognition of the realities we face, and what is needed to overcome them. To each of them, I extend my heartfelt thanks and deepest regrets that we have come to this point.
These are individuals of exceptional professional and personal caliber who have made outstanding contributions to who we are today. Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce by approximately 250 people. This will strengthen our ability to build and invest in products and services that will give people alternatives to conventional Big Tech. Today we announced a significant restructuring of Mozilla Corporation.
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