[HN Gopher] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocac...
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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
Author : atestu
Score : 87 points
Date : 2024-11-05 20:29 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com)
| pjmlp wrote:
| All they had to do was to focus on doing the best browser, and
| email client.
| minimaxir wrote:
| Unfortunately in the world of OSS, neither of those are enough
| to pay the bills unless you have a lucrative partnership (i.e.
| Google paying to be the default search engine in Firefox, which
| is now no longer the case).
| mossTechnician wrote:
| If Mozilla cares about their pocketbook, they could
| reevaluate how much they are spending on their CEO and AI
| companies. The victims of their monetary incompetence are
| always their own employees. I'd say Mozilla is just another
| company now, but even the average for-profit will lower the
| CEO salary if the company underperforms.
| pjmlp wrote:
| Fully agree, that is why I usually put money on the software
| I care about, it isn't about using stuff from others freely
| while expecting to be paid myself.
|
| However, there is the whole issue about the money that they
| were spending on CEO salary, the related bonus, and all the
| activities about who knows what, instead of Firefox and
| Thunderbird.
| b3ing wrote:
| Not surprising as the CEO and board prevented the should=be-CEO
| from having the position because that person was recovering from
| cancer treatment.
| Onavo wrote:
| He should go start a competitor. I have a company name
| suggestion for him, maybe he can call it "Courage", it's a very
| cool hipster name for a browser startup.
| alach11 wrote:
| This is largely in anticipation of the devastating drop in
| revenue if Google can no longer pay them to be the default search
| engine. That's where they get 86% of their revenue [0].
|
| [0] https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/mozilla-firefox-biggest-
| poten...
| eigenspace wrote:
| Wouldn't that affect their for-profit company arm, not the non-
| profit Mozilla Foundation?
|
| Or does the for-profit arm fund the non-profit?
| riedel wrote:
| >Revenue consists of the following: x Royalties - Mozilla
| provides the Firefox web browser, which is a free and open-
| source web browser initially developed by Mozilla Foundation
| and the Corporation. Mozilla incorporates search engines of
| its customers as a default status or an optional status
| available in the Firefox web browser. Mozilla generally
| receives royalties at a certain percentage of revenues earned
| by its customers through their search engines incorporated in
| the Firefox web browser.
|
| [0] https://stateof.mozilla.org/
|
| Based on the audit numbers I a bit puzzled about the reported
| amount of staff. Maybe I am reading it completely wrong
| deburo wrote:
| > ruled that the tech giant has illegally maintained a monopoly
| through the billions of dollars in annual payments it makes to
| partners
|
| Wow. Are they serious? that's illegal?
| jowea wrote:
| I wonder if Firefox will even survive this. Maybe the main FOSS
| browser will be a Chromium fork so it's cheaper to maintain?
| dangobanned wrote:
| Mozilla, freeloader since start. Uses free labor and privatizes
| profits.
|
| They don't stand a chance in front of Brave and other awesome
| browsers.
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