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posted by martyb on Saturday September 20 2014, @01:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the innovate-or-die dept.

Ian Bicking has confirmed that Mozilla has quietly shut down Mozilla Labs.

This development raises some interesting questions about the future of Mozilla and their products:

With Firefox's usage declining, with Firefox on Android seeing limited uptake, with Firefox not being available on iOS, with Thunderbird stagnating, with SeaMonkey remaining as irrelevant as ever, with Firefox OS suffering from poor reviews and little adoption, and now with a reduction in innovation due to the closure of Mozilla Labs, does Mozilla have any hope of remaining relevant as time goes on?

Will Mozilla be able to reignite the spark that originally allowed them to create products like Firefox and Thunderbird that were, at one time, wildly popular and innovative?

Is Mozilla still capable of innovating without Mozilla Labs, or will they slowly fade into irrelevance as the last remaining users of their products move on to other offerings from competitors?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday September 22 2014, @01:23PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday September 22 2014, @01:23PM (#96738) Journal

    If I can be arrested for being a nudest, why can't someone be fired for supporting oppression?

    I'm all for free speech -- I'd even say we don't take it far enough in this country -- but that does not mean speech completely free of consequences, and it CERTAINLY does not mean *actions* free of consequence. First of all, money is not speech. The Supreme Court can say what they want, but it's not. It's a transaction. If money is speech, so is selling someone an ounce of cocaine. That's absurd. Furthermore, free speech applies to *government* restriction only. He shouldn't be put in prison for those beliefs. But if someone is being an asshole, the rest of society has a right -- a duty even -- to call them out on it. You have every right to be an ass, but you can't force me to help you do it.

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