I read it not as sarcastic, but as carrying an implication that the Firefox leadership is intentionally tanking the browser - that their conscious active goal is to sink the ship, and that the drop is a result of malevolence rather than incompetence. And I suppose that would imply the person in the image believes Mozilla is being run by people who don’t want the browser to succeed.
I haven’t really followed the leadership at all, nor have I always agreed with the anti-Mozilla stuff I see annoyingly often on Lemmy. So to be clear, I wasn’t agreeing with the linked post, just giving my interpretation of their intended meaning.
I appreciate the added context you gave. I don’t think I’ll ever understand how a website full of so many people who love free software can be one of the most anti-Firefox places I’ve encountered on the internet. It often feels disingenuous or astroturfed.
I think people feel entitled to free stuff with no hooks at all. So when Moz tries to generate revenue within a capitalist society, they are worse than normal companies. Like they are breaking a promise to always be free and great. (Which they never made, their manifesto talks about making the internet accessible and equal for everyone)
Is the text in the image sarcastic?
I read it not as sarcastic, but as carrying an implication that the Firefox leadership is intentionally tanking the browser - that their conscious active goal is to sink the ship, and that the drop is a result of malevolence rather than incompetence. And I suppose that would imply the person in the image believes Mozilla is being run by people who don’t want the browser to succeed.
Mitchell Baker was CEO a bunch, she has been at Mozilla since the very beginning.
It doesn’t make sense to me that she would be intentionally tanking Mozilla’s only successful product.
And even if she were, that’s Mozilla Corp. The Mozilla Foundation is outside that.
I haven’t really followed the leadership at all, nor have I always agreed with the anti-Mozilla stuff I see annoyingly often on Lemmy. So to be clear, I wasn’t agreeing with the linked post, just giving my interpretation of their intended meaning.
I appreciate the added context you gave. I don’t think I’ll ever understand how a website full of so many people who love free software can be one of the most anti-Firefox places I’ve encountered on the internet. It often feels disingenuous or astroturfed.
Thank you for clarifying!
Re: Moz hate;
I think people feel entitled to free stuff with no hooks at all. So when Moz tries to generate revenue within a capitalist society, they are worse than normal companies. Like they are breaking a promise to always be free and great. (Which they never made, their manifesto talks about making the internet accessible and equal for everyone)
Makes sense. If Google is paying to have competition in the market, they can’t allow them to outperform their own. Still, just a conspiracy theory