cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

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.”

  • @just_another_person
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    1417 days ago

    WTF. They had $1b banked a few days ago. This is a bit reactionary perhaps?

    • @[email protected]
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      817 days ago

      They’re likely preparing for their funding from Google to be cut. Having a lot of money in the bank doesn’t matter if your income is lower than expenses, since you’ll run out of money eventually.

      • @just_another_person
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        217 days ago

        Expecting millions to be cut is still extreme when you have a fucking billion in the bank.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 days ago

          They get around $500 million per year from Google, so $1 billion is just two years worth of that. 86% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from that Google deal.

    • @GreenKnight23
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      717 days ago

      well you see. all the cool kids are laying off staff and Mozilla wants to hang out at their pool next summer.