This includes the entire Servo team which was working on its next generation web engine that was supposed to be Firefox's ticket to staying afloat in the future. Servo also popularized the Rust language afaik

Aside from Servo, they also axed the entire threat management team, because why would a browser need threat detection and incident response, amirite?

Relevant links:

https://nitter.snopyta.org/directhex/status/1293352458308198401

https://nitter.snopyta.org/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865

  • iacari [he/him]
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    CEO gets 2.5 million fucking dollars

    They even ruined Mozilla (edit: and when I say 'they' I don't mean anything weird, I mean people running things laying off 250 people and not being able to even do a token gesture of slightly lowering their massive 'compensation')

    And then Google ran the web