Mozilla's Response to Proposed Remedies in U.S. vs. Google LLC (opens in new tab)

(blog.mozilla.org)

9 pointsbretthoerner1y ago7 comments

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As much as I love Firefox, the only thing I can read here is: We have failed to diversify, and we would really like our yearly $400 million to pay our CEO

jeffwask1y ago

From 2 million to 7 million over 4 years while every metric continued to fall.

alabastervlog1y ago

The really frustrating thing is that I'd have happily helped them stagnate, and to fail to save sufficiently for a rainy day, for half that.

I_Am_Nous1y ago

That, and the unfortunate truth that if Firefox only exists because Google needs a fig leaf against monopoly charges, it hasn't proven its value in enough ways for it to stick around. I love Firefox, but the market in general has centralized on Chromium for a lot of reasons.

Philosophical reasons to exist are great, but philosophy doesn't pay the bills, it seems.

ndegruchy1y ago

It doesn't take a lot to read between the lines here. It's not like selling off Chrome would somehow invalidate the Open Source Chromium project in any way.

Ukv1y ago

Feels like the underlying issue is Mozilla's dependence on Google. I can understand why Mozilla took and don't want to give up the search deal - it gives significant funding for only a minor concession, so it's easy to justify as pragmatic/ends-justifying-the-means perspective ("this small compromise or no Firefox") - but here it puts them in an awkward position of needing to argue against attempts to break up Google's search monopoly.

jqpabc1231y ago

Correction: Google's response to proposed remedies.

Mozilla is just the mouthpiece.

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