MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

  • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    They’ve tried, notice how many of their products and services with a cost get shut down?

    Their power users are too picky for what they offer, and the normie users wouldn’t want a product the power users demand.

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      2 months ago

      It sounds like a management issue. They keep frolicking around and not listening to the userbase. There is no reason other than management that Mozilla couldn’t be a profitable and sustainable company. They create some half baked thing no one asked for and then kill it off.

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      That’s why you make enterprise products. Companies will continue to pay for services they don’t even use for years because nobody knows what it is or what it does.

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      And then SimpleLogin comes, as just one example, and succeeds. Mozilla obviously messed up all their efforts, for one reason or another.