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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

They changed CEOs just last year...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Despite those choices, I'm not sure there were many other directions that could ever bring in the profits that Google does.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

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