Mozilla's 'Chief Lizard Wrangler' Mitchell Baker was laid off by
Netscape on August 23. In a message
to the mozilla-general mailing list and the
public.mozilla.general, the "manager, problem arbitrator, and
speaker to suits" of the organization announced the layoff and said
"I remain committed to the Mozilla project and to contributing in
whatever ways I can."
An article on MozillaQuest.com discusses the layoff (via a bug
registered in the project's Bugzilla database) and indulges in some
speculation based on "rumors flying around that Netscape has laid
off other employees that had been working on the Mozilla
project."
We'll note a second time that the only substantive information
available from any of the involved parties is that Baker is no
longer working for Netscape and that the company released her on
August 23.