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Written by Adam Katz on 2024-09-18 at 19:59

I worry for @mozilla. For a too-brief time, they were a modern-day Bell Labs or Xerox PARC. They had tons of amazing experiments and weren't afraid to fail.

Their entry to Mastodon never made any sense given all the other options, but I see it as an echo of that era. In Mozilla's best years, we might have seen all sorts of new Fediverse features and Mastodon tweaks, but this can't happen nowadays because they're cash-strapped.

The anti-monopoly rulings against Google might doom Mozilla since it depends on Google's funding, ironically cementing $GOOG's browser engine monopoly. This is why Mozilla is trying cockamamie distractions like their VPN service: they need non-Google money. I am so disappointed that they cut Servo and Rust. These weren't just great research ventures—Firefox can't compete without them. (Rust will survive, but Servo?)

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