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Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives
(lunduke.locals.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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A significant portion of this blog post is complaining about Mozilla's repeated attempts to find new revenue streams that aren't Firefox. It's a sentiment I see a lot and I just don't get it.
They complain about Google paying to be the default search provider being a bad thing, and yet when Mozilla says "yeah, we hear ya, that's why we're trying to find stuff to diversify into so we can become less reliant on Google" people cry and shout "you should be sticking to Firefox, why aren't you focussing on Firefox??"
Like, which is it? Do you want Mozilla to diversify and have a more sustainable revenue stream, or do you want them to focus on Firefox and commit to reliance on Google? Because maintaining a project as big as Firefox without any funding simply isn't possible, and people aren't going back to paying for web browsers.
What these people want is not at all realistic. Devs want to be paid for their work. They can't have that if Mozilla follows idiots like Lunduke's "don't take money from Google, but also don't do anything that will make money. Only do Firefox."
I've yet to see a single one of these people offer any alternative that comes even remotely close to being feasible.
That's the thing. They aren't different people. Just people with unrealistic expectations.
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It's the only criticism that matters. Yeah, I'm irked by the CEO making millions too, but that's unfortunately the standard for pretty much any widely known company.
Shit, Mozilla is actually on the low end in that space. So while I don't like the egregiously high pay, it seems weird to call Mozilla out on it specifically.
And Mozilla having layoffs a while back doesn't change the fact that their workers need to be paid, so the "get rid of Google's funding and stop trying to look for other income too!!!! Just focus on Firefox!!" is still the dumbest take on planet Earth.
But I'm not surprised, it's a take from Lunduke, after all. A person who has also advised that people shouldn't use Firefox because it's "woke".
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