Why Firefox? There’s a moment now when the web could benefit from leadership. There’s a chance to rebuild text in the web around the use of AI systems. But almost every company that could be a leader in this space isn’t thinking about what they can do for the web, instead are focused on their corner of it. For a company like Firefox whose product everyone understands is at the center of what the web is, they keep avoiding this obvious role. The assumption I guess is they need revenue and there’s no money to be made from selling browser software. But there is a lot of money to be made, imho, recurring revenue, offering services to users that can foster growth of the web, for which Firefox can lead in developing great features in an open way so other browser companies can share from their innovation. That’s the Firefox I got to know in the waning days of MSIE when it was plagued by malware and we all needed, desperately, a good alternative. The one written by Blake Ross, Dave Hyatt and Joe Hewitt. We have to step out into entrepreneurial space, and I guarantee you there’s money to be made here, recurring revenue and trust by users will be something that will be highly valued. But we all have to do it together, something the tech industry doesn’t have in its DNA, and it’s high time we got some of that. #