I'm not saying you have to agree but it's pretty clear how the author arrived at that conclusion if you read the article.
To summarize: Firefox's shrinking marketshare is an existential threat to Mozilla. The vast majority of its revenue is tied to the search engine deal with Google that the author describes as quasi-charity. Linux is clearly a lower priority than Windows and Mac (and the author even says that it's logical for Mozilla to prioritize Windows/Mac). So if there is a substantial drop in revenue (like the Google deal falls apart or Google just decides to pay Mozilla less) then Linux will bear the brunt of the reduction in resources.
> Firefox's shrinking marketshare is an existential threat to Mozilla
yeah, so the best thing to do is to try to reverse that. the article just takes it as given that mozilla/firefox will probably fail.
and if it does fail, there's a lot of linux users out there installing chromium on their desktops that will have helped it along.
its so weird how the browser is arguably more important than the operating system at this point, but open source nerds don't even see the problem in shitting on firefox and using google's browser instead. that attitude could be changed.
To summarize: Firefox's shrinking marketshare is an existential threat to Mozilla. The vast majority of its revenue is tied to the search engine deal with Google that the author describes as quasi-charity. Linux is clearly a lower priority than Windows and Mac (and the author even says that it's logical for Mozilla to prioritize Windows/Mac). So if there is a substantial drop in revenue (like the Google deal falls apart or Google just decides to pay Mozilla less) then Linux will bear the brunt of the reduction in resources.
The author sees reliance on Mozilla as a risk