It's SUN/Java all over again. Successful programming languages tend to be bad for business: they generate support costs but little or no measurable income. Th

It's SUN/Java all over again. Successful programming languages tend to be bad for business: they generate support costs but little or no measurable income. The only way to make them profitable is to use them as a lock-in tool for your platform (VB, .Net, SQL dialects...), but Mozilla never had anything to lock people in.