I really hope this is not going to turn into a flame / paranoia fest. So here's my cool-headed, although speculative, answer: * GSoC has had a tendency to rota

I really hope this is not going to turn into a flame / paranoia fest. So here's my cool-headed, although speculative, answer: * GSoC has had a tendency to rotate open source projects. Lots of new projects seem to have been added, and some others will have to go. * In general this year there seem to be a lot of science (bioinformatics, geospatial, etc) projects, more than before, and that may be due to a changing focus. * The Mozilla foundation is not a small organisation and could afford for internships themselves, in fact I believe they did just that in the last few years.