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How should a non-profit like Mozilla gauge it's success? Should it be going after browser market share (Firefox)? Developer brain market share (Rust, MDN)? Lead

• ironsides 11y ago
  Use and performance of its core product, Firefox.
• macspoofing 11y ago
  Good question, but I think market share is what buys you access to 'leadership positions' and enables 'advocacy'. If Firefox has 1% market-share, nobody cares what Mozilla says or does.
  • ironsides 11y ago
    Also, its hard to see that same Foundation that is used to 300M checks being successful for very long after the revenue dries up.
• Twirrim 11y ago
  Market share isn't a bad gauge. Their revenue streams are theoretically dependent on it. Those search deals are dependent on impressions.
• bobajeff 11y ago
  I think it should be in terms of how well they are achieving their mission. Which is kind of open ended and varies over time. But can be summed up as keep the Web open and unrestricted. Their success can therefore be determined by how well they fight against things like: * monoculture of browser's/engine's (Internet Explorer, Webkit) * The use of vendor specific standards on web (ActiveX, NaCl, Flash Player) * The introduction and proliferation of non-open standards on the web. (H.264, HVEC, Widevine, Primetime, FairPlay, PlayReady) * The centralization of content and services onto a few dominant websites (Google, Facebook, YouTube)