Maybe Mozilla could do with a bit less money. They've been playing serious business for some time now, but it's pretty much been borrowed feathers. Firefox go

Maybe Mozilla could do with a bit less money. They've been playing serious business for some time now, but it's pretty much been borrowed feathers. Firefox got big because of early enthusiasts who believed in a better web. That got them enough clout to get google interested, and google basically gave them large piles of money. Somehow that gave them the idea they were a "real business" now, and they started spending and reorganising themselves accordingly. Now it turns out they probably weren't a real business after all. Those piles of google money in the bank could have sustained pure Firefox development perpetually, probably even allowed for fun and useful side-projects like Rust, but no, Mozilla wanted to play serious business, except, of course, now they have to compete against actual serious businesses, which in this case would be Google and Microsoft, and so far their efforts haven't been a unanimously successful. > This is where the Free Software mission has faltered No, this is 1. where Mozilla has faltered, and 2. Focusing on money, marketability, and business friendliness is pretty much an open source objective. That's fine, but don't drag Free Software into this.