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Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team

posted by chromas on Thursday August 13 2020, @05:55AM   
from the here-today,-gone-tomorrow dept.

takyon writes:

Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

The Mozilla Corporation announced today it was laying off approximately 250 staff members in a move to shore up the organization's financial future.

The layoffs were publicly announced in a blog post today. Employees were notified hours before, earlier this morning, via an email [PDF] sent by Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corporation CEO and Mozilla Foundation Chairwoman.

Baker's message cited the organization's need to adapt its finances to a post-COVID-19 world and re-focus the organization on new commercial services.

[...] In 2018, the Mozilla Corporation said it had around 1,000 full-time employees worldwide. Mozilla previously laid off 70 employees in January. Several sources have told ZDNet that the recent layoffs accounted for nearly a quarter of the organization's workforce.

Main casualties of today's layoffs were the developers working on the company's experimental Servo browser engine and Mozilla's threat management security team. The latter is the security team that investigates security reports and performs incident response. The security team that fixes bugs in Mozilla products is still in place, according to sources and a Mozilla spokesperson.

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Original Submission

• Re:I think that's it Re:I think that's it (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:38AM (4 children)

  by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:38AM (#1036054) Journal

  :-) But, we still have Seamonkey. So all is well

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• Re:I think that's it Re:I think that's it (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:43AM (3 children)

  by Arik (4543) on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:43AM (#1036057) Journal

  Is it?
  
  Doesn't that depend on Gecko?

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  • Re:I think that's it Re:I think that's it (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 13 2020, @10:29AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday August 13 2020, @10:29AM (#1036080) Journal

    The nice thing with Open Source is that if the original developer fails to deliver, others can take over.

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    • Re:I think that's it (Score: 3, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Thursday August 13 2020, @05:27PM

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday August 13 2020, @05:27PM (#1036230) Journal

      But that takes money. More than 90% of Mozilla's funding is through the deal with Google. Without it, they would have closed shop within a year or so. So how are you gonna finance the salaries of hundreds of developers? There are no companies with deep pockets who need Firefox, unlike those who pay Linux devs.

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  • Re:I think that's it (Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Thursday August 13 2020, @05:27PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday August 13 2020, @05:27PM (#1036229) Journal

    It could depend on PFM, as long as it works... Really it's the stability of its interface and options that keep me hooked. Cookie manager could use some work though. And bookmarking, you know who had the absolute best bookmarking? Internet Explorer, it just stored a shortcut to the page on your disk. It was perfect. I could manage them in a regular window like any other file. Using a database is stupid and kludgy

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