A succinct description of what's wrong with #Mozilla

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%

Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.

Maybe it's time to replace the entire board at #Mozilla

Clearly, the project doesn't have competent leadership or else there's no way that an org which receives enough yearly funding to launch its own space program is floundering

@cypnk while an interesting correlation, this excludes many other very relevant points that affected the Firefox marketshare. For example, Chrome was launched in 2008. In 2010 adoption started to take off, and the Firefox marketshare started to take a dive.

@Routhinator The linked article has many other issues. But in this specific case, I believe Mozilla's funds are being grossly mismanaged

Add to a series of spectacular leadership missteps:

- Appointing as CEO, someone who contributed to an (unconstitutional) proposition to ban gay marriage https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/

- Mr. Robot tie-in marketing via unsolicited download https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/

- Laying off 250 people while Mitchell Baker collects a ridiculously large pay https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/

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