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The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit 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.”

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the advocacy is the reason why i continued to support mozilla/firefox.

this is horrible. :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm sort of hoping the folks they laid off weren't actually the advocacy folks, and they're just additionally doing the restructure and moving the advocacy folks into the other departments.

But yeah, I don't fucking know what to think of it. I do have a base-level of trust that they'd make a sensible decision in some dimension. But I'd really like to know more where they're headed now...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

that would 100% be the right move but i worry