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| From | not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) |
| Subject | [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Date | 2024-11-09 09:13 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
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." ... -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#
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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
Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> - 2024-11-09 17:18 -0300
Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2024-11-09 22:24 +0000
Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-11-10 16:02 +0000
Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@example.com> - 2024-11-13 10:10 -0300
Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-13 22:06 +0000
Re: [LINK] Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-11-10 20:06 +0000
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