Mozilla is a for-profit not-for-profit. And that’s all you need to know to explain everything that doesn’t seem to make sense about the chasm between what they say and what they do.
@aral what does Mozilla do at all? Hint, it isn't develop a browser, that is a different org, confusingly also called Mozilla that you don't have access to at all.
@aral I've spoken to a number of ex mozilla employees over the years as my diatribes against mozilla have ramped up and one thing is super super clear now: regardless of any actual intent, mozilla has been essentially trapped by Google's unlimited privacy violation payments. There may be a desire to stop wasting hundreds of millions of Google's dollars every year in favor of wasting money they earned honestly, but it is never, ever going to happen.
Nothing they do will ever shake the fact that they can't even keep up with Chromium when Google pays them to do so, and that the second Google decides to stop funding them they are completely fucked.
I think the only responsible thing they could do at this point is fire the C-suite, shut down the for-profit company and let Google continue to fund the not-for-profit until they don't anymore. Stop trying to be profitable and start trying to make a goddamned browser 🤷
@aral I.was wealthy i'd resurrect khtml and konqueror. Used to be a great browser 20 years ago, but apple forked it (later Google forked it to chrome) and had enough $$$ to be slightly better while still open source. Of course here we are 20 years latter and the community has no useful browser.
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