what they could do to derive value we would pay for
For someone that found Linux in the 90's and watched the birth of Mozilla from the ashes of Netscape, that's a very strange thing to read.
This site is not Slashdot, I know. It always had another kind of relation to business and money. But still...
I have no idea why Mozilla should need a business model. Much less I understand why should we think of one and agree on it.
How much money does it take to maintain a web browser? If it's a lot, maybe, just maybe, we should agree on a reduced feature set and refuse to use something more complex. Some people here talk about text mode browsers. I'm not so radical. Just keep it simple enough to be maintanable by a dozen of volunteers.
For someone that found Linux in the 90's and watched the birth of Mozilla from the ashes of Netscape, that's a very strange thing to read.
This site is not Slashdot, I know. It always had another kind of relation to business and money. But still...
I have no idea why Mozilla should need a business model. Much less I understand why should we think of one and agree on it.
How much money does it take to maintain a web browser? If it's a lot, maybe, just maybe, we should agree on a reduced feature set and refuse to use something more complex. Some people here talk about text mode browsers. I'm not so radical. Just keep it simple enough to be maintanable by a dozen of volunteers.