"Google is an organization that excels at taking individual, seemingly-benevolent units of work and then combining them into things that are anti-competitive or just plain evil"
Interesting AMA from a Mozilla employee
@marwe Holy Molly ! So many gadgets gone.. I had no idea
@markosaric That was a great quote from that AMA!
@markosaric I didn't read the whole thing yet, but one line I encountered stands out to me.
> But now the raw number of users are dropping, and I am not confident that the anybody has the solution to that.
When the solution is just obvious: don't take away things people used. Don't redesign everything randomly.
Mozilla is like an army who goes on campaign when there are riots in the capital because the currency is debased and loaves bread are smaller.
@cadadr @markosaric dude, the last para is dope.
@markosaric and they regularly abandon a lot of projects, even pretty large ones:
https://killedbygoogle.com/