A quarter century of Mozilla

It's also "difficult to imagine" that Mozilla 25 years ago would have made such an announcement on a site that does not allow comments. Because, you know, back then they would have been highly praised, and today—justifiably—roasted.

Baker's frittering away hundreds of millions of dollars while establishing no endowment to focus on a central mission coupled actually to users, with none of the simultaneous corporate kowtowing, has earned her appraisal as something of a pariah. No, she's not nearly so bad, nor is Firefox so bad, as Google and its Chrome, but there's hardly any trust that she could not be in a moment if it served her interests. The comment above that "I'm not the kind of person who thinks everything should be open source" right there tells you first and foremost what she is: an opportunist who today finds that niche is best served with the prattle as in today's PR-drenched missive, and tomorrow could just as easily speak the opposite.