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OMG! Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-200502497.html Did Google perhaps pressure them to do this?
@nixCraft Speculation I’ve seen points more to Mozilla potentially worrying that after this antitrust case that’s ongoing, Google may not be able to pay other companies (Mozilla, Apple, etc.) to be the default search engine. So potentially more seeing that the money might dry up
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@stephengentle
> Mozilla potentially worrying that after this antitrust case that’s ongoing, Google may not be able to pay other companies (Mozilla, Apple, etc.)
Mozilla's legal entities have been a basketcase for years. Making one unprincipled decision after another, and totally dependent on Goggle for financial survival. If the anti-monopoly enforcement that began under the Biden administration continues, there's a good chance Mozilla won't survive in its current form.
It's long past time for a consortium of people who care about the web to do what the founders of the Document Foundation did with OpenOffice;
1) fork the codebases Mozilla stewards
2) assemble funding from diverse sources to support their ongoing development
3) hire ex-Mozilla developers who have experience with the forked codebases
Particularly those who quit on principle, in response to one of the many unprincipled decisions at Mozilla Inc. (eg nonfree DME module from Adobe).