"...Mozilla has the tools, the history, and the mission to reclaim its role..."
What it does not have is the resources, nor any way to get them. Then the larger point is that resources are not general-purpose: when one says "let us acquire resources in order to do X", and then acquires resources, one finds that those resources can only be used to do anti-X -- and spends the very rest of one's life wondering what in Hell happened. That is where Mozilla is: the only way it can get money to perform its mission is by repudiating its mission.
AI is a new, hot technology, but there’s nothing really new for Mozilla to do here, either... There is no reason why Mozilla will be the best at creating these solutions, or differentiated in doing so.
Completely agreed, along with the selective endorsement of Mozilla's now-defunct advocacy division. Mozilla has chased too many trends, yes, but it has also chased too many redundancies.
"...Mozilla has the tools, the history, and the mission to reclaim its role..."
What it does not have is the resources, nor any way to get them. Then the larger point is that resources are not general-purpose: when one says "let us acquire resources in order to do X", and then acquires resources, one finds that those resources can only be used to do anti-X -- and spends the very rest of one's life wondering what in Hell happened. That is where Mozilla is: the only way it can get money to perform its mission is by repudiating its mission.
AI is a new, hot technology, but there’s nothing really new for Mozilla to do here, either... There is no reason why Mozilla will be the best at creating these solutions, or differentiated in doing so.
Completely agreed, along with the selective endorsement of Mozilla's now-defunct advocacy division. Mozilla has chased too many trends, yes, but it has also chased too many redundancies.