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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
 by Zack Whittaker, November 5, 2024
 - https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

"The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser 
 maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the 
 organization says it faces a "relentless onslaught of change."
 
 When reached by TechCrunch, Mozilla Foundation's communications 
 chief Brandon Borrman confirmed the layoffs in an email.
 
 "The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility 
 and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and 
 equitable technical future for us all. That unfortunately means 
 ending some of the work we have historically pursued and 
 eliminating associated roles to bring more focus going forward," 
 read the statement shared with TechCrunch.
 
 According to its annual tax filings, the Mozilla Foundation 
 reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year. The number 
 of employees at the time of the layoffs was closer to 120 people, 
 according to a person with knowledge. When asked by TechCrunch, 
 Mozilla's spokesperson did not dispute the figure.
 
 This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting 
 dozens of employees who work on the side of the organization that 
 builds the popular Firefox browser.
 
 Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the 
 Mozilla Corporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies, 
 and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt Foundation, which 
 oversees Mozilla's corporate governance structure and sets the 
 browser maker's policies." ...

Seen at OSnews:
https://www.osnews.com/story/141100/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-of-its-employees-ends-advocacy-for-open-web-privacy-and-more/

"This means Mozilla will no longer be advocating for an open web, 
 privacy, and related ideals, which fits right in with the 
 organisation's steady decline into an ad-driven effort that also 
 happens to be making a web browser used by, I'm sorry to say, 
 effectively nobody. I just don't know how many more signs people 
 need to see before realising that the future of Firefox is very 
 much at stake, and that we're probably only a few years away from 
 losing the only non-big tech browser out there. This should be a 
 much bigger concern than it seems to be to especially the Linux and 
 BSD world, who rely heavily on Firefox, without a valid alternative 
 to shift to once the browser's no longer compatible with the 
 various open source requirements enforced by Linux distributions 
 and the BSDs." ...

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