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1. tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:18:54 JST tante

   Mozilla's blog post about new leadership perfectly illustrates a core issue (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/):
   The new members/roles of the board are all introduced with the big tech companies they come from (Twitter, Google, Walmart, Uber etc.)

   And sure that comes with a lot of experience running a company and organization, I am not saying that those people don't have skills. But given their resume they also have immense paychecks. And there is very little information about why they should steer one of the most influential organizations in the free software space.

   That's the issue. Further corporate logic instead of thinking fresh about what role an organization such as Mozilla could and should play.

   • murph :amiga: (murph@hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:18:50 JST murph :amiga:

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     @tante

     It seems to me, problem is Firefox, the thing that we want them to do, makes no money, and cannot be sustained on its own, so we have two options:

     1) depend on Google forever. Everyone hates this

     2) Find some other way to sustain development, like ads, or something else. Everyone hates this too.

     Not sure how to solve this, anyone have a better idea? Third thing that I'm not seeing?

   • tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:18:52 JST tante

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     So much this comment on LWN:

     "While we still mention Firefox in this press release because it's the only thing we do that anyone actually wants us to do, we will also do a thing nobody wants, a thing nobody wants, and ask for money."

     https://lwn.net/Articles/1010925/

   • murph :amiga: (murph@hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:20:11 JST murph :amiga:

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     @tante
     Would be nice.

   • tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:20:12 JST tante

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     • murph :amiga:

     @murph https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114036484356103379

   • murph :amiga: (murph@hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:25:31 JST murph :amiga:

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     @tante If, as the comments in your linked threads suggest that they're only interested in startups, maybe they could fund Servo well enough to develop it into a decent browser.