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Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project (2024)


I clearly remember, but can't date it. I was working for Mozilla messaging at the time (momo), being the QA lead for Thunderbird.

They hired someone from the mobile industry to run the company, this led to some culture changes : no more a flat org, but a pyramidal one with middle managers. Besides becoming more like a normal company, the new CEO grew the size of our teams, added project managers, Sales people, to make sure B2G would reach a huge audience. I'm organizing a GnuPG key signing party in order to bolster our web of trust , since there is no official ksp this year.

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