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Comment by tiahura | Hacker News Reader

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Interesting that only 1 out of 17 people in the senior management group is a technologist, and she's a senior director. No VPE, no CTO. Says a lot about the organization's priorities.

> Sarah Allen, Senior Director, MozFest > Juan Barani, Senior Director, Gift Planning

Not to pick on these two people, but it's interesting that they have senior directors for a conference and gift planning.

"gift planning" here means "getting rich people to give us large checks".

The "planning" term should be read the same way as "estate planning" or "financial planning." They're a charity, so they have employees dedicated to ensuring a continuous stream of donations. For example, someone might pledge to give $X over the next 10 years, or to give a percentage of their estate to the foundation when they die.

This branch of the company is often called "development," but R&D organizations sometimes need to come up with different names because that term gets overloaded.

Motherfuck! Mozilla's board and their funding projects almost makes me want to abandon Firefox and go to Chrome.

After Microsoft giving up on their rendering engine and joining the Chromium train I think the internet is in a perilous place. We're down to Blink, Gecko, and WebKit. Apple's monopoly on iOS browsers (soon to be undone) is unfortunately one of the last things keeping us from recreating the dark ages of IE's near monopoly on the market. I'd recommend at least supporting a non-Blink based browser like:

  * Lunascape (actually has all 3 major engines built in. Great for web dev)
  * Pale Moon - uses Goanna, a fork of Gecko
  * Waterfox - focused on speed and privacy and compatible with Firefox addons