> Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech.
Not disagreeing with the rest of this, but I love Pocket.
Not disagreeing with the rest of this, but I love Pocket.
Given this, I moved to Pinboard, which isn't open-source either, but is faster, easier to use, cheaper, and has taken no VC funding.
I'm interested to see if their increased focus on products that generate revenue, like Pocket, will mean that it'll finally be open-sourced... although it doesn't seem like something that will significantly increase revenue, so I doubt it's a priority.
[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...
Obviously, that depends on a lot of things, but something that would recommend, cache/archive, catalog things I find interesting/care about. I would be willing to pay for something like it. I already pay for pandora, I'd absolutely pay for something that expanded my knowledge base.