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Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

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On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
> by Zack Whittaker, November 5, 2024
> - https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/
>
> "The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser
> maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the
> organization says it faces a "relentless onslaught of change."
>
> When reached by TechCrunch, Mozilla Foundation's communications
> chief Brandon Borrman confirmed the layoffs in an email.
>
> "The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
> and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
> equitable technical future for us all. That unfortunately means
> ending some of the work we have historically pursued and
> eliminating associated roles to bring more focus going forward,"
> read the statement shared with TechCrunch.
>
> According to its annual tax filings, the Mozilla Foundation
> reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year. The number
> of employees at the time of the layoffs was closer to 120 people,
> according to a person with knowledge. When asked by TechCrunch,
> Mozilla's spokesperson did not dispute the figure.
>
> This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting
> dozens of employees who work on the side of the organization that
> builds the popular Firefox browser.
>
> Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the
> Mozilla Corporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies,
> and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt Foundation, which
> oversees Mozilla's corporate governance structure and sets the
> browser maker's policies." ...
>
> Seen at OSnews:
> https://www.osnews.com/story/141100/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-of-its-employees-ends-advocacy-for-open-web-privacy-and-more/
>
> "This means Mozilla will no longer be advocating for an open web,
> privacy, and related ideals, which fits right in with the
> organisation's steady decline into an ad-driven effort that also
> happens to be making a web browser used by, I'm sorry to say,
> effectively nobody. I just don't know how many more signs people
> need to see before realising that the future of Firefox is very
> much at stake, and that we're probably only a few years away from
> losing the only non-big tech browser out there. This should be a
> much bigger concern than it seems to be to especially the Linux and
> BSD world, who rely heavily on Firefox, without a valid alternative
> to shift to once the browser's no longer compatible with the
> various open source requirements enforced by Linux distributions
> and the BSDs." ...
>
>

I assume the various woke and leftist outreach programs will continue 
though? If not, they sure wouldn't be mozilla any longer. ;)

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[LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-11-09 09:13 +1000
  Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-11-09 07:49 +0100
    Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> - 2024-11-09 09:50 -0300
      Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-11-09 20:05 +0100
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