[75dvtwin]

Warning: hypothesis

It could be that Mozilla's role in the whole scheme of things is to act as 'Plausible Deniability' defense for big G.

Which is, probably, what that Mozilla's current CEO lawyer is there for.

Google needed to get rid of Brendan Eich (Mozilla's CEO that was to browsers, like Bill Gates to Windows) - for the plausible deniability defense to work [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/11/did-mozilla-ce...

[boomboomsubban]

So what about the five years between when Eich left to 2019, where Chris Beard, an MBA as CEO? Plus, why would Yahoo have wanted the search contract then?

[cryptica]

This is a good hypothesis. Unfortunately, plausible hypotheses and the truth have a way of getting downvoted to the bottom of the comment section these days. I always find myself scrolling straight to the bottom of the last page of HN discussions to find interesting comments. Downvote if you agree.