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The Frontend of the Computer

Oxide and Friends

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The Legacy of Firefox and Mozilla

Mozilla's legacy was to get us to a world in which our browsers are broadly open source. That's still true, but you're talking about very, very, very complex engineering systems and it takes a ton of capital. So really, if you don't have a massive amount of capital to deploy to these things, you're not going to be able to compete in any real way. And I think that that really gets around this whole notion of like, Oh, yeah, open source is going to save us.

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