[jaredcwhite]

"While Firefox remains the core of what we do"

Um excuse me? Mozilla has been asleep at the wheel for years, letting Firefox languish while Mozilla plays squirrel with a dozen other things nobody knows or cares about. In fact, I guarantee you that outside of nerd culture, nobody has any idea what Mozilla is. But maybe they have heard of Firefox.

You should be shouting *Firefox Firefox Firefox!* from the rooftops with a massive new ad campaign aimed at growing marketshare rapidly. Then find creative ways to respectfully monetize your enthusiastic fanbase.

This seems like Software Business 101 to me, which is why I am continually mystified you seem unable to grasp these basics.

[altairprime]

The fanbase has no money to offer Firefox. As with all free products in today’s wage-inequality world, no one can afford to pay for a browser, so no one will voluntarily — and if they try to charge money, users will just switch to Chrome. So either the mission of “free open web” goes out the door or they end up sacrifice their Necko/Gecko clusterfuck in order to cut the hundreds of jobs it takes to maintain creaky old C++ browser engine. Ten bucks says they announce their intentions to migrate to WebKit or Servo in the next year.