Can we crowd-fund a campaign to buy Firefox and let the Mozilla Corp focus on whatever the shit it thinks its core competency is? I want the people that thought that what they really really was another Pocket to be liberated from the burden of that legacy browser that they have to think about sometimes.
I think it's too late but I'd love to see it happen and would donate.
Mozilla had one job: keep Firefox going as long and as sustainably as possible. And they've utterly failed in my eyes. I'm sure they don't see it that way. But, they could have had a well paid engineering group, a small marketing group and invested all the rest of the cash they got over the years from Google to support themselves for a really long time. No ridiculous purchases, no stupid products, no executive pay packages. They've been searching for profit they didn't need, they could have just sat on their endowment.
They effectively killed their golden goose, a lovely goose that everyone else wanted to pet.
I actually have, and a decent job of this has been done by Iceweasel, but forks aren't allowed to use the branding, let alone the official websites and update mechanism etc.
Also, buying would be just as much about taking control from them as it would be about gaining control. I don't like incompatibilities, but I really hate when extraneous shit gets added to my browser along with the security updates and bugfixes.
