Mozilla is back at trying to find PMF because what they set out to do they achieved: the web is now standards-compliant and almost all browser engines are almos

Mozilla is back at trying to find PMF because what they set out to do they achieved: the web is now standards-compliant and almost all browser engines are almost entirely open-source. The web is truly cross-platform and open. This is a blinding success and entirely due to Mozilla's operations in the 2000s that brought standards-compliance and open-source to the forefront. What happens to an org with a goal when it hits the goal? It has to find a new goal or dissolve. It's tempting to say that dissolution is the right thing. But if you have accumulated resources, I imagine it's hard not to direct that at something else you care about. The standards-compliant web was a big deal. I cared about that a lot. Many of my friends were Firefox ambassadors or whatever. Kids were installing Firefox on computer lab machines and hiding the IE icon. It was a different time. I don't really care about data privacy like that, but maybe there are others who care about it like I cared about being able to view the web on a Linux browser with as much fidelity as IE on Windows. I find it unlikely since I think techno-optimism is a galvanizing goal and techno-pessimism is a limiting one. But that's just my opinion. Overall, I'm quite happy with what Mozilla did. It makes sense they have to cycle CEOs till someone finds out what sticks.