This includes the entire Servo team which was working on its next generation web engine that was supposed to be Firefox’s ticket to staying afloat in the future. Servo also popularized the Rust language afaik
Aside from Servo, they also axed the entire threat management team, because why would a browser need threat detection and incident response, amirite?
Relevant links:
https://nitter.snopyta.org/directhex/status/1293352458308198401
https://nitter.snopyta.org/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657
This sucks shit. Mozilla was one of the few remaining hold outs from the utopian ideal days of the Internet. This looks like they are basically looking to abandon that position and become just another ‘services’ provider. Fuck capitalism.
Mozilla is essentially the only thing that is stopping Google from being in complete control of web standards. Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, etc. all use Blink, Google’s browser engine.
So yeah, this is very worrying.
I used Vivaldi for a month when FF75 came out.
Then Lichess broke and I found a userChrome hack that fixed the address bar.
Thank goodness employment isn’t tied to health insurance or anyth–I’m sorry I think I just got a note here, let me read it…
“Please explain how your salary of $2.5 million couldn’t be put to better use as part of Emerging Technology’s budget?”
Moz CEO: “Executive compensation is a general topic – are execs, esp CEOs paid too much? I’m of the camp that thinks the different between exec comp and other comp is high. So then i think, OK what should mozilla do about it? My answer is that we try to mitigate this, but we won’t solve this general social problem on our own. Here’s what I mean by mitigate: we ask our executives to accept a discount from the market-based pay they could get elsewhere. But we don’t ask for an 75-80% discount. I use that number because a few years ago when the then-ceo had our compensation structure examined, I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That’s too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.”
As compared to the 100% discount your laid off employees are now “asked to commit to”
So she was appointed in April. Since her appointment she’s upped Executive salary and laid off 250, killed their future web engine and their threats department and is now focusing on money making strategies. This is the death of Mozilla. The execs are just going to run the corpse into the ground sucking every dollar out.
In the U.S., Mozilla-paid COBRA benefits through the end of the year. In all other countries, where we can, we will seek to provide similar coverage.
Don’t worry, you have just five months to find a job in a tight market where literally no one is hiring!
luckily, I’m seeing a lot of fellow developers reaching out and offering jobs to the laid off employees.
when you say 1117 words that mean absolutely nothing
