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by Kelteseth 460 days ago
As much as I love Firefox, the only thing I can read here is: We have failed to diversify, and we would really like our yearly $400 million to pay our CEO
3 comments
jeffwask 460 days ago
From 2 million to 7 million over 4 years while every metric continued to fall.
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alabastervlog 460 days ago
The really frustrating thing is that I'd have happily helped them stagnate, and to fail to save sufficiently for a rainy day, for half that.
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I_Am_Nous 460 days ago
That, and the unfortunate truth that if Firefox only exists because Google needs a fig leaf against monopoly charges, it hasn't proven its value in enough ways for it to stick around. I love Firefox, but the market in general has centralized on Chromium for a lot of reasons.

Philosophical reasons to exist are great, but philosophy doesn't pay the bills, it seems.

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ndegruchy 460 days ago
It doesn't take a lot to read between the lines here. It's not like selling off Chrome would somehow invalidate the Open Source Chromium project in any way.
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