Mozilla CEO stepping down, signals end of Firefox

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4 points·rafaelc··8 comments

Way to sensationalise the article, nothing in it mentions the end of Firefox you clown.

Editorializing is for comments, article title is:

"Mozilla CEO John Lilly Stepping Down To Join Greylock Partners"

How is "signlas end of Firefox" accurate at all? Especially given that they just released a bunch of new information about Firefox 4?

Why does it signal the end? Because the browser is slow, the underlying technology is outdated, they're going to have issues when they announce how much money they have as a non-profit (thanks to the Google relationship, which is continually fraying) and oh by the way the CEO just left.

they're going to have issues when they announce how much money they have as a non-profit

Not so. Firefox is a product of the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit organization. The Mozilla Foundation is the sole shareholder of the Mozilla Corporation.

As a point of interest, much of the money the corporation brings in through their search deal with Google is redistributed to the employees by way of a generous bonus structure. It's one of the ways they compete with stock-distributing startups for talent.

I think the fact that an OSS company can do so well within the context of Silicon Valley is awesome. Moz rocks.

It's probably best to keep that sentiment in the comments, though, and let the article stand on its own merits, instead of being dragged down by editorializing (or at least confusing people who see nothing about that in the article).

Wow. You make an incredible amount of bad assumptions.

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/05/10/firefox-4-vision-fas...

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