This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    If Mozilla does become defunct, it does raise the question of whether Chrome would be considered a Google monopoly, and therefore subject to antitrust legislation.

    I can’t imagine any governments would look kindly upon internet access being guarded behind a single company’s product.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I can’t imagine any governments would look kindly upon internet access being guarded behind a single company’s product.

      laughs in 2001

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Google should be subject to antitrust legislation regardless.

      Their position as a monopoly is what enables this.

    • WldFyre@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Splitting Chrome from Google wouldn’t make Chrome not a monopoly, though, right?

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        The split might leave a monopoly still, if it’s the only major browser.

        • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          It would be a lot easier to compete with though, since Google couldn’t treat it as a loss leader that still bring them in search revenue by default.