Another CEO for mozilla. Good or bad news?

  • treadful@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Hard to say. You kind of want someone that was part of a successful product. And successful for-profit products are almost always menaces.

    • Zorque@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yes, but hiring someone who’s good at making for-profit “services” successful generally means you want your product to be for-profit.

      And as you say, successful for-profit companies are often menaces.

      • treadful@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        I don’t really disagree, but what do you want as an organization, someone that built a “good” product that nobody ever used and fell into obscurity? Or someone that built a product that attracted and retained millions of users that you might consider “bad”? And tbh, most of the “bad” from these products is just because of their size and monopoly, which would arguably be a good problem to have for Mozilla.

        Probably an easy choice if I was on the board.

        Also, not that it matters to our discussion but just as a minor correction, the new CEO is a woman.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Airbnb actually provides a useful service, unlike PayPal which only extracts fees