You should pardon me if in your linguistic-cultural background some wording i pick might sound more sensitive than im aware of, as its not my mother language, so i might miss some nuances.
As you can see reading further the core of the point i was trying to make is; we are all imperfect, thats a fact of life.
Than we have fitness, and as more sophisticated things get, fitness is harder to achieve.
To be fair, i dont know how much Eich was a good fit as a CEO for Mozilla, all i can deal with is that he was booted not because of performance, but a political stuff that got uncovered and that was against the image Mozilla was known to defend. Fair enough.. is it serious? Yes, because it damages the image of Mozilla even if its not the fault of the corporation, because it sounds like an endorsement..
Ok, but its all a matter of weighting, but not only looking for the short term, but the long term.. maybe there was someone in Mozilla that had the technical baggage and also the socio-political views
Again, i dont know how well the person picked to be the next CEO can evaluate and weight decisions in the deepest level not only of policy but also engineering.
But i´ve seen the external movements of the chess board, and this last one, made it more clear where Mozilla is heading and how they are evaluating their decisions.
Mozilla did bold movements that did not worked out, but they were not tottally misguided, as they could actually succeed, so they were not maded by a totally unaware person. Its just that its super hard to do everything right and have luck at the same time.
But i think, the real problems were not in those bold movements (and right now when you look at them in the rear window, they look just like cash burned) but in the innability to follow and keep their core projects moving.
For instance, the browser took too much time to keep up with the multi-process architecture in Chrome. It took like 4 years if im not mistaken..
Meanwhile there were a lot heat being dispersed in moonshots.. again, is not that the moonshots were wrong per-se, but as long as the most of the energy were being
expended in keeping up in the core of what make mozilla matter today.
But hey, the moonshots maybe were misguided somehow, but here, there this one or two that we invested in the past that is starting to bear fruits.. we were lucky.. so why now shutdown the projects that might actually be the ones that can save mozilla in the future?
If it was just a matter of closing the offices elsewhere in the world(like the one in Berlin), but we know that part of the engineering not only now, but in the beggining of the year were booted of the company, and some of them in things that should be strategic for Mozilla in the comming years.
The pressure is hard, but the good CEO´s will make a stand and defend the things that might not look very good now, but that will be key in the future..
And i wonder, how much a CEO or boarding that could go deeper in the engineering rabbit hole could have helped into making the right decisions.
Again, i dont know very well the CEO or the board, all i see is the chess pieces moving from here.. and from what i can see, joining the pieces of the pass movements, i have a sour taste in my mouth that what was once one of the greateast, shiny companies of high technology, a role model to me and to many people, are starting to repeat the misguided steps of companies like Yahoo.
Sorry for "the MBA´s", as i dont want to offend anyone, but what i meant is the pattern in the moves, it looks a lot like things Ballmer would do, not Gates. And the difference lies in how much they are informed to take the good decisions they need to make.
And tech people often lack the philosophical, social and political baggage to make the good decisions on those kind of matters, so in my opinion they must be helped not chased. Because in the end this might be important to the survival of the entity, that might look good on the paper and in its image, but might be lost in its direction.
It sounded like a rant, and i think it was harsh on my part, but its because i care and really like Mozilla.
Its when the times are rough that the good decisions are really needed. so i just wonderered.. and i would love to be proved wrong, really.
As you can see reading further the core of the point i was trying to make is; we are all imperfect, thats a fact of life.
Than we have fitness, and as more sophisticated things get, fitness is harder to achieve.
To be fair, i dont know how much Eich was a good fit as a CEO for Mozilla, all i can deal with is that he was booted not because of performance, but a political stuff that got uncovered and that was against the image Mozilla was known to defend. Fair enough.. is it serious? Yes, because it damages the image of Mozilla even if its not the fault of the corporation, because it sounds like an endorsement..
Ok, but its all a matter of weighting, but not only looking for the short term, but the long term.. maybe there was someone in Mozilla that had the technical baggage and also the socio-political views
Again, i dont know how well the person picked to be the next CEO can evaluate and weight decisions in the deepest level not only of policy but also engineering.
But i´ve seen the external movements of the chess board, and this last one, made it more clear where Mozilla is heading and how they are evaluating their decisions.
Mozilla did bold movements that did not worked out, but they were not tottally misguided, as they could actually succeed, so they were not maded by a totally unaware person. Its just that its super hard to do everything right and have luck at the same time.
But i think, the real problems were not in those bold movements (and right now when you look at them in the rear window, they look just like cash burned) but in the innability to follow and keep their core projects moving.
For instance, the browser took too much time to keep up with the multi-process architecture in Chrome. It took like 4 years if im not mistaken..
Meanwhile there were a lot heat being dispersed in moonshots.. again, is not that the moonshots were wrong per-se, but as long as the most of the energy were being expended in keeping up in the core of what make mozilla matter today.
But hey, the moonshots maybe were misguided somehow, but here, there this one or two that we invested in the past that is starting to bear fruits.. we were lucky.. so why now shutdown the projects that might actually be the ones that can save mozilla in the future?
If it was just a matter of closing the offices elsewhere in the world(like the one in Berlin), but we know that part of the engineering not only now, but in the beggining of the year were booted of the company, and some of them in things that should be strategic for Mozilla in the comming years.
The pressure is hard, but the good CEO´s will make a stand and defend the things that might not look very good now, but that will be key in the future..
And i wonder, how much a CEO or boarding that could go deeper in the engineering rabbit hole could have helped into making the right decisions.
Again, i dont know very well the CEO or the board, all i see is the chess pieces moving from here.. and from what i can see, joining the pieces of the pass movements, i have a sour taste in my mouth that what was once one of the greateast, shiny companies of high technology, a role model to me and to many people, are starting to repeat the misguided steps of companies like Yahoo.
Sorry for "the MBA´s", as i dont want to offend anyone, but what i meant is the pattern in the moves, it looks a lot like things Ballmer would do, not Gates. And the difference lies in how much they are informed to take the good decisions they need to make.
And tech people often lack the philosophical, social and political baggage to make the good decisions on those kind of matters, so in my opinion they must be helped not chased. Because in the end this might be important to the survival of the entity, that might look good on the paper and in its image, but might be lost in its direction.
It sounded like a rant, and i think it was harsh on my part, but its because i care and really like Mozilla.
Its when the times are rough that the good decisions are really needed. so i just wonderered.. and i would love to be proved wrong, really.