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Author: bmann

_notes/Gecko Mozilla Thoughts.md

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- > <mark>the primary reason Gecko was compelling as a platform choice in the last decade wasn’t the code, IMO, it was the nature and intent of its owner.</mark> A theoretical antidote of sorts that felt good to have exist and go to battle with anyone and everyone if necessary. Mozilla Corporation, as it slowly learns to be a real company, not a movement, is a less and less obvious counter bet to the culture and behaviours of the market winners.
+> <mark>the primary reason Gecko was compelling as a platform choice in the last decade wasn’t the code, IMO, it was the nature and intent of its owner.</mark> A theoretical antidote of sorts that felt good to have exist and go to battle with anyone and everyone if necessary. Mozilla Corporation, as it slowly learns to be a real company, not a movement, is a less and less obvious counter bet to the culture and behaviours of the market winners.
 
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- > <mark>We desperately need organizations that deeply and primarily care about browsers and the web, who are going to do more than just skin Chromium (Linux).</mark> We need rebel alliances, and we need them to take on forks “of significance” because they are trying to influence how the web itself works for _everyone_, just like Mozilla did. Natural forces (fork cost) suggest these efforts are incentivized to merge over time and the web _could_ continue to evolve and reflect multiple points of view on top of a single dominant code base this way.
+> <mark>We desperately need organizations that deeply and primarily care about browsers and the web, who are going to do more than just skin Chromium (Linux).</mark> We need rebel alliances, and we need them to take on forks “of significance” because they are trying to influence how the web itself works for _everyone_, just like Mozilla did. Natural forces (fork cost) suggest these efforts are incentivized to merge over time and the web _could_ continue to evolve and reflect multiple points of view on top of a single dominant code base this way.
 
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- > Right now, and for quite some time I’d wager, <mark>Google alone decides what is de facto on the web by what they ship in Chrome, regardless of what plays out in open source code repos.</mark>
+> Right now, and for quite some time I’d wager, <mark>Google alone decides what is de facto on the web by what they ship in Chrome, regardless of what plays out in open source code repos.</mark>
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  > <mark>Second, someone has to fund next generation engines</mark>, in my opinion. They’re long shots, but they’re invaluable in so many ways to show us what’s possible when we don’t have the weight of every single website ever made on our shoulders. I have no idea how to fund them except all the players should just shake hands and put 1% of their fuzzily defined browser budgets into a small pool that hands out grants to crazy people.
 
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- > Regardless, for those of us with the passion for building the web in some sort of way, we can’t wait for Mozilla to do anything. We’ve got to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
+> Regardless, for those of us with the passion for building the web in some sort of way, we can’t wait for Mozilla to do anything. We’ve got to roll up our sleeves and get to work.