@calispera@babka.social
Mozilla is a very strange entity and the Mozilla Corporation is tasked to make money. The way it does that has changed over time but largely through deals- for example by having Google as the default search engine, Mozilla is paid millions of dollars. By making deals with VPN providers and others, it makes other money.
We know that over time Firefox has gotten worse and worse for users.
We don't know why.
It will be interesting to understand what happened in depth so we can learn lessons from it.
@calispera
I won't speak for @terryb but there's are two polarities. On one hand you have a singular vision, and on the other, a group.
There's an expression in English "A camel is a horse designed by committee".
There's an idea that a thing made purely by focus groups will have no identity and no spirit.
Of course sometimes hearing the views of others will help inform and make a better work, but if it's not done thoughtfully then you get "mush".
Imagine if Leonardo da Vinci had a focus group. We'd have paintings of cats. :)