Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to @firefox? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part but we all should contribute some for good infrastructure. And the idea that search engine payments from Google is what keeps Firefox afloat should worry us all. We need browser engine diversity if the web is going to stay open and not littered with walled gardens any more than it already is.
The “focusing on AI and Pocket” part provided proof that the current crisis is due to poor management. The poor management could even have come from tech leadership; I’ve met plenty of chief architects who were just as prone to bandwagon-jumping as anyone else.
It’s always poor leadership, but people on the lines never write the press releases.