[shadowgovt]

It's a fun fantasy, but the simple fact is that the standards committees are a power game and if Mozilla doesn't operate successfully as a corporation they have no power.

And you don't make money selling a browser.

[ricktdotorg]

but doesn't Mozilla have more than a billion dollars in the bank (and/or investments) for doing precisely that?

they "sold" their browser, just not to end-users. they sold it to google via "royalties" for google to use as a shield against anti-trust.