Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla

• Zorque@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would you call any of those successful products ‘good’ tho? Yes they have made a lot of money but at the same time…2 of 3 are straight up evil. Ebay…eh. Could be worse. Thats all I can say there. Paypal has straight up stolen people’s money on countless occasions and gotten away with it. Then there was that huge violin fiasco. Airbnb is straight up a part of destroying the housing market, they know this, they don’t care.

  I get it, most big companies are ‘menaces’ like you say but…these are absolutely horrible companies responsible for true evil and, odds are, he’s going to bring that energy to Mozilla.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nestle provides a useful service, does that make their literal slave labor acceptable?

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Didn’t say that, I’m comparing companies that do nothing useful to companies that do something useful

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    • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Giving an avenue for rich development companies to snatch up properties they can short-term rent to rich travelers is a useful service?

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because those companies can’t go to booking.com if there’s no airbnb?

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Airbnb is a social plague, its perpetrators should be in prison.

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For what crime?

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