[apostacy]

Looking at it in terms of leverage and market-share is a huge mistake that Mozilla keeps making. Mozilla doesn't have a platform like Google does. What exactly is Mozilla even competing for? Popularity?

They should hunker down and make the best browser they can, implementing their best web. It worked 20 years ago, and in many ways the circumstances are the same. We have tech monopolies proposing ludicrous "content security" mechanisms. Where would Mozilla have been if they tried making some sort of half baked "less evil" form of Microsoft Janus DRM[1]?

People are going to get sick of how intrusive DRM is becoming, and there should be an alternative waiting for them.

Every person who has content they thought they purchased "expire" and be erased from their device, or who can no longer use their expensive projector after the latest mandatory update.

I evangelized heavily for Firefox in the 1.x days. People were sick of IE6, and were glad to have Firefox. I worked at a computer store and probably converted 100+ people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_(DRM)

[wmf]

What exactly is Mozilla even competing for? Popularity?

Mozilla's revenue is proportional to usage so they need enough users to cover their development costs.

[20after4]

If only the wikimedia foundation would fork firefox, then the open web might have a chance.

Wikimedia is honestly the only organization with the right ideology, the right business model, and enough money to do something like this sustainably.