If you look back on Mitchell's words about protecting Mozilla's independence from, e.g. Google: https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.computerw

If you look back on Mitchell's words about protecting Mozilla's independence from, e.g. Google: https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9044160/Mozilla_can_live_without_Google_s_money_Baker_says_ https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu... ... it would seem that 14 more years of eating out of Google's hands(with ever growing sums) has softened their resolve. "The things that make Mozilla and Firefox a success [are] the product, and the community that cares about it." First and foremost, we would protect those things," Baker said. "If the protection of those things would come into conflict with Google, or any of our search partners, we would opt for the community who built Firefox and love Firefox." ... would that it were so.