[nchelluri]

That was really cool. Thanks for posting.

I think like a lot of you I probably can't watch a documentary without feeling "omg that guy was biased!" but I felt like they were pretty even-handed here.

  - long hours
  - stock options are a lottery, a stupid tax
    - "and I won the lottery"
  - the countdown timer at the open-source launch, the last minute typo of domain name, the person who observed it and directed the fix - that was awesome
  - the realistic portrayal of burnout and long hours
  - the sale to the giant evil internet corporation
  - the original reply to jwz's "AOL is buying us and here's why its not so bad" mozilla.org post

I use Mozilla (Firefox) as my "daily driver". At work I recently had to switch to Chrome because they offer a USB/serial device API through extensions. If Firefox did too I'd maybe work overtime to port that shit over because I love Mozilla. What an organization.

I feel bad because these guys did waste a bunch of their time building a fucking web browser. But maybe, just maybe, the web would suck a lot less without mozilla.org and their free codebase. And then, I did start to get the idea, "hmmm, maybe it'd be good to write HTTP again... this time with sessions baked in..." and wander off into "Can I implement that?" territory.

[pjc50]

If they hadn't written a web browser, the internet would have been the internet of IE6 forever.

[robin_reala]

The current state of WebUSB in Firefox: a few patches, nothing really new since late 2014. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674718