Firefox

A final Community thing is that over the past five or so years, Mozilla has been turning away from it's powerhouse, the Community. I have no idea why, but I can say that it's a top down decision. At some point, some folk at a high level decided that Mozilla got to where it did on it's own. It did not. The thing I was beating a drum about was that the folk working there were the lucky ones who got a paycheck, but most of their peers were folk who didn't have a badge and a @mozilla.com email address. Leadership was convinced that the people in our Community were just customers, and maybe fans. This pissed off so, so many folk, and rightly so. They had given hours or years of effort and time without compensation, because they believed they were part of a larger effort. They felt betrayed because they were betrayed. I'm sure that someone probably had a reasonable argument about “how could we let all these outsiders have say?" or "I don't like that those folk hate the amazing work we're doing promoting lemony fresh bell bottoms (or whatever trend they were chasing)?" I dunno, boss, maybe the folk using your browser actually might have solid reasons of their own and might really appreciate things that don't show up on LinkedIn top takes?