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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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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.”

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh geez the leadership is making more mistakes.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. If they're low on cash then cutting unnecessary costs is not unreasonable. What is Mozilla's core goal? Perhaps the "advocacy" and "global programs" divisions weren't all that relevant to it, and so their funding is better put elsewhere.

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Let's wait and see how this funding won't be talked about ever again and later on the CEO coincidentally gets yet another raise