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The Mozilla layoffs ... will get worse (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just saw a post complaining about the Mozilla layoffs.

I wanted to point out that the vast majority of their income (over 85% in 2022) is from having Google as the default search engine - Ironically, the anti monopoly lawsuit against Google will end this.

Expect things to get worse.

Please don't assume it was just a cruel choice.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Taking funding from your biggest competitor is a weird business choice.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (25 children)

Where should they be "taking" funding instead?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know. Crowdfunding? How does Thunderbird keep it self afloat? Maybe better integration of the community as in more say in what will be developed depending on how much money you donate etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's exactly the worst way to prioritize. Money should not be influence. That always works out worse in every example in the history of everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But thats exactly how they work currently? Google is the default search engine in firefox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So it's the default. Big deal. You can change that when you start the app first time. If that gets them funding that's not a horrible price to pay. Also, that's not money getting influence exactly, that's a transaction. "We will pay $x to get this status." Not the same at all as "I donated lots of money therefore I get to say how you develop the software."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't seen the contract between google and firefox.

Maybe "how you develop the software" is a bit far-fetched, I was more thinking about decide where to put efforts into e.g.: continue developing Firefox's core mechanic of being a privacy oriented webbrowser instead of... whatever they are doing with the funding they get.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah basically what I meant.

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