The Mozilla organization has leadership that is complicit with Google.

- Mozilla acts as an antitrust sponge for Google and in exchange gets lots of money

- Mozilla is encouraged not to make Firefox better than Chrome. They thus under-invest in Mozilla, Rust, and core browser tech.

- Mozilla spends all of its money on irrelevant efforts like VR, shitty platform plays, half-baked AI, and insane exec comp.

It's a drop in the bucket for Google's peace of mind.

If Mozilla wanted to be a next-gen serious company, they would become a developer tooling and platform company. They'd keep developing Firefox and Rust, they'd build up an ecosystem around Rust and WASM, and they'd be the best in the world at it. Deploy websites, micro services, and run CI with Mozilla.

Rust is infectious and growing, WASM will eat the web and the data center, and Mozilla is completely sleeping on it. What's sad is how much of a hand they had in developing it all.

They threw away the stuff that mattered.

>Mozilla is encouraged not to make Firefox better than Chrome. They thus under-invest in Mozilla, Rust, and core browser tech.

Is there any evidence of this kind of corruption? It always seemed like misguided altruism to me, or at worst a serious lack of focus.

> there any evidence of this kind of corruption

Follow the money. Google gives so many millions to Mozilla, it would be a miracle if that had no effect on their priorities.

I wish people had such faith in my own competence.

All it takes is one CEO. The ICs have nothing to do this.