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by dralley 947 days ago
>Mozilla did more harm than google, like killing Servo

Look, no offense, but to do "harm" by killing Servo, people would have had to have been using Servo, or there would need to be a clear path to people using Servo, which there wasn't, really. The parts of Servo which were technically viable in any reasonable timespan were already mainlined into Firefox.

>embedding Pocket

You genuinely think this is "more harm" than Google? Seriously? Not to mention that Pocket is a non-Google source of profit for Mozilla.

>and let's not forget how they siphoned the money they made with their Google contract, they chose to fund their other questionable endeavors instead

"questionable endeavors" like, um, Rust and Servo? You're ignoring the successes while only alluding to failures. I like both Rust and Servo, but say what you will about Firefox OS, at least it presented new market opportunities. Rust and Servo did not.

>When you choose to sell your user base to google, you are part of the problem

Please suggest a viable business model for Mozilla, then.