Drew DeVault • 10/22/2020

Firefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Source

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This article presents a scathing critique of Firefox and Mozilla's trajectory since 2006. It lists perceived failures like laying off engineers, raising executive pay, adding ads, and siding with Google on antitrust while being funded by them. The author argues Mozilla has abandoned its open-source principles, making Firefox an 'embarrassment' and leaving the web to Google's monopoly. The conclusion is that the web is a 'lost cause' and advocates moving to the simpler Gemini protocol.

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