▲ 49 ▼ Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project (archive.ph) submitted 1 year ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/firefox@lemmy.world 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued
[–] Edymos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children) God, this website is much sadder than Google's permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (3 children) How so? I find Mozilla more willing to keep a project longer than Google. Not that that's not a very low bar, out that you can't criticise Mozilla for it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Edymos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) Yes, they are keeping projects alive for longer, but a lot of stuff that's on there is really important. I mean they were really aiming for the stars with Firefox OS. To me it's more that Mozilla is either bad at managing projects, or it's just that hard to compete with proprietary software. Either way it's disappointing to see. Seeing the scope of each project shrink over time isn't helping either. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago For what it's worth, being a professional software engineer, I expected that list to be at least a magnitude longer. I guess, it doesn't include all their internal projects. But yeah, you would not believe how much shit we throw at the wall and how little of it sticks, particularly not for more than a few years. I once heard the figure that IT investors expect 1 out of 20 investments to pay out, which feels about right to me... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago I see your point. I think they're incompetent at both marketing and user retention. And the fact that so much of their payroll goes to inept C-suite executives didn't help either. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (3 children) How so? I find Mozilla more willing to keep a project longer than Google. Not that that's not a very low bar, out that you can't criticise Mozilla for it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Edymos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) Yes, they are keeping projects alive for longer, but a lot of stuff that's on there is really important. I mean they were really aiming for the stars with Firefox OS. To me it's more that Mozilla is either bad at managing projects, or it's just that hard to compete with proprietary software. Either way it's disappointing to see. Seeing the scope of each project shrink over time isn't helping either. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago For what it's worth, being a professional software engineer, I expected that list to be at least a magnitude longer. I guess, it doesn't include all their internal projects. But yeah, you would not believe how much shit we throw at the wall and how little of it sticks, particularly not for more than a few years. I once heard the figure that IT investors expect 1 out of 20 investments to pay out, which feels about right to me... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago I see your point. I think they're incompetent at both marketing and user retention. And the fact that so much of their payroll goes to inept C-suite executives didn't help either. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Edymos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) Yes, they are keeping projects alive for longer, but a lot of stuff that's on there is really important. I mean they were really aiming for the stars with Firefox OS. To me it's more that Mozilla is either bad at managing projects, or it's just that hard to compete with proprietary software. Either way it's disappointing to see. Seeing the scope of each project shrink over time isn't helping either. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago For what it's worth, being a professional software engineer, I expected that list to be at least a magnitude longer. I guess, it doesn't include all their internal projects. But yeah, you would not believe how much shit we throw at the wall and how little of it sticks, particularly not for more than a few years. I once heard the figure that IT investors expect 1 out of 20 investments to pay out, which feels about right to me... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago I see your point. I think they're incompetent at both marketing and user retention. And the fact that so much of their payroll goes to inept C-suite executives didn't help either. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago For what it's worth, being a professional software engineer, I expected that list to be at least a magnitude longer. I guess, it doesn't include all their internal projects. But yeah, you would not believe how much shit we throw at the wall and how little of it sticks, particularly not for more than a few years. I once heard the figure that IT investors expect 1 out of 20 investments to pay out, which feels about right to me... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago I see your point. I think they're incompetent at both marketing and user retention. And the fact that so much of their payroll goes to inept C-suite executives didn't help either. permalink fedilink source parent