“There comes a time when the only merciful thing to do is pull
the plug. When the old-timer has been bloated and incontinent for
as long as anybody can remember, it can only be considered an act
of kindness to turn off the machines and let a dear friend finally
breathe its last. So long, Mozilla, old chum – sorry it had to come
to this.”
“Mozilla is dead, or it might as well be. No matter how many
people are exhausting themselves by pounding on the corpse’s chest,
the best thing the population of the Net can do – both for the good
of the Mozilla Project and for themselves – is strip what they can
from the body, say a fond farewell and get on with their
lives.“
“Things weren’t supposed to end this way. When Netscape played
their Hail Mary and released the Navigator source code to the
public, it heralded a new beginning for the Web. An open source
browser was going to – in order of difficulty – save the world,
resurrect the dead and beat back the Microsoft juggernaut. Alas,
the great, green hope instead ran headlong into nearly every
obstacle a software project can face, often more than once, usually
as a direct result of its own pig-headed stubbornness. Re-writes,
feature bloat and a profound and unsettling misunderstanding of
what the consumer market wants have all hobbled Mozilla, almost
from the beginning.”