Contrary to reports, nevertheless, Borrman said the restructuring won’t impact its goal of open-source and free web advocacy. “Quite the opposite, advocacy continues to be a central tenet of Mozilla Foundation’s work,” he said. “Fighting for a free and open web will at all times be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re within the strategy of revisiting our approach to it.”
Together with the Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla currently consists of 5 organizations: the Mozilla Corporation, which leads consumer product-based work; Mozilla Ventures, a “tech-for-good” investment fund; Mozilla.ai, an AI R&D lab; and MZLA, which makes Thunderbird.
In 2020, the Mozilla Corporation cut about 25% of its 1,000-person global workforce, saying that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on economies “significantly impacted our revenue.”
Borrman said the layoffs didn’t affect any of the opposite Mozilla entities.
