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Mozilla doesn't pay nearly as well as the top tech companies out there do. Maybe the people who are left after all the best people leave end up making bad decisions. Human capital matters.

Of course Mozilla's decisions look foolish to us. We (for the most part) are not the ones who couldn't move on to greener pastures.

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You disagreeing with the decision doesn't make it a bad decision.

You go one step further, though, and passively-aggressively call the people making the decision incompetent. That's just rude.

Sure, but sometimes being rude is what it takes to be truthful. You can quote a lot of Firefox users who are saying this - follow this path, and they will no longer use Firefox. This isn't some idle threat, it's just what people will do. It's not a secret, it's not going to be some surprise.

So when you look back in a year's time on why Mozilla has now failed, this decision will be the obvious one.

And at that point, it might sound less rude to you.

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