" it's also the reason why Firefox gained so much ground against Internet Explorer. It wasn't that smarter people work on Firefox--it's that more people worked

" it's also the reason why Firefox gained so much ground against Internet Explorer. It wasn't that smarter people work on Firefox--it's that more people worked on only the things they cared about, solving problems for themselves. The best ideas floated to the top and became part of the codebase" This is very misleading. Most of firefox's development happened when Internet Explorer wasn't undergoing active development at all. That's the real reason they were able to pass Internet Explorer so quickly.