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it's time to fork #Firefox and turn it into a cooperative-owned project.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

cooperative membership is the element missing from FLOSS.

fuck the non-profit's faux neutrality when in truth it's just a broke doppelganger of the top-down structure of the corporatist kleptocracy.

make the project a cooperative where members --users and developers-- get to vote on the future of the project with their paid memberships and contributed labor.


Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI.
Ars Technica
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in reply to yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

Aleca
Aleca
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the layoffs affected VPN, Relay, Monitor, and Social. Nothing happened to Firefox, on the contrary there are new open roles for desktop developers in the Firefox team that were just created.
The layoffs are terrible and the strategy focusing on AI is indeed questionable, but Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation which is a non profit and community oriented organization
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Aleca
Aleca
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@ecksearoh @alecaddd yeah, didn’t mean to dismiss her points, sorry if I sounded condescending, I was trying to highlight the fact that Firefox wasn’t affected by the layoffs and the non profit on top of it it’s actually hiring, so my point is to try to not be too reactionary by suggesting forking Firefox and establishing a new entity since the current one is a bit outside of all current events
@Aleca @Xerø
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