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Execs Debate Mozilla's Future
- TechCrunch, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:27 PM
TechCrunch picks up on a discussion -- on question and answer site Quora -- between outgoing Mozilla CEO John Lilly and its co-founder Blake Ross about the future of the company. (The debate
apparently began after someone posted the question: "Will Firefox have double-digit market share in 3 to 5 years?") Ross says: "I'm pretty skeptical ... I think the Mozilla Organization has gradually
reverted back to its old ways of being too timid, passive and consensus-driven to release breakthrough products quickly."
Lilly says: "I'm hardly an unbiased observer, but am confident
that it will (retain double-digit growth) ... Product is getting better all the time, and especially with 4.0 approaching in the fall ... We've got 400M users and are growing that number ... And we
have a huge community of committed people around the world working on making it better." Not exactly unbiased himself, Ross is presently Director of Product at Facebook, where he's reportedly working
on a Quora killer. According to the votes from Quora users, Ross is so far winning the argument.
