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A long time ago, I was an intern at the Mozilla Corporation. Does anyone recognize that name anymore? At the time we were the shining hope of the new internet, cracking open Microsoft’s grip on computing one browser tab at a time. We even got badges that let us into the Google cafeterias for free meals, like guerrillas with the quiet backing of another rising power. (Perhaps more importantly, they were also funneling millions of dollars into our coffers through a search sponsorship deal.) We were a ragtag group befitting our insurgent status — purple-haired hackers from San Francisco mashed up with hardcore Christian evangelicals from New Zealand, high school volunteers side by side with vets of the dotcom bust. And we were winning. When I was an intern in 2007, Mozilla’s firefox browser had been continuously taking share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for half a decade. At all-hands meetings they’d say: you could all be making more money somewhere else, but you’re here because you

A long time ago, I was an intern at the Mozilla Corporation. Does anyone recognize that name anymore? At the time we were the shining hope of the new internet, cracking open Microsoft’s grip on computing one browser tab at a time. We even got badges that let us into the Google cafeterias for free meals, like guerrillas with the quiet backing of another rising power. (Perhaps more importantly, they were also funneling millions of dollars into our coffers through a search sponsorship deal.) We were a ragtag group befitting our insurgent status — purple-haired hackers from San Francisco mashed up