Hahaha oh god Mozilla literally banning porn on Firefox is just all sorts of hilarious incompetence
I can’t believe this company was once a place I seriously looked up to. They’ve been doing basically completely clown shoes shit back to back for at least the past decade.
Just absolute nonsense. It’s so bad I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s being intentionally sabotaged. The level of damage that has consistently been done to such a feel good brand, so consistently, for so long, almost feels like the sort of thing only malicious actors would pull off.
@zkat I was invited to their Paris HQ about a decade ago for something only partially related to Mozilla (they were hosting a dev meeting), and got to talking with some of the folks there.
Everything I learned about how the place was run gave off a very strong "startup culture" impression to me, in the unsustainable "burning through money you don't have to keep up with the joneses" way.
Even then I couldn't shake off the feeling that they were headed for disaster and had absolutely no contingency plans or organizational survival skills if the funding were to even partially dry up.
All of which is to say, I don't know that it's sabotage. It seems explainable through culture issues alone... 😕
@joepie91 to be clear: they have been exactly as you describe for as long as I’ve been aware of industry politics.
I say it’s malicious because usually, when you are this deeply bad at running your company, you go under
@zkat Would the 'malice' component then be something like "absorb all the community goodwill but keep the company just bad enough that it can't actually achieve its goals", or something else?
@joepie91 if I’m not exaggerating, then the “malice” is “take money from Google to keep the company afloat and then make sure you don’t compete with Google, but make every effort to appear as if you still do, publicly”
@zkat Ah, yeah, that matches what I've long been suspecting as well.
@zkat (To clarify, all of my concerns were about the management layer. The people doing the work all seemed excellent and perfectly competent to me.)