Why didn’t Amazon buy Mozilla/Firefox?

Question

I would have thought it would be strategically valuable for Amazon to own the only other viable browser to WebKit, but instead it&rsquo;s just all falling apart.

onyva · Accepted Answer

Anyone buying Firefox will make the project instantly irrelevant. It&rsquo;s not a product, it&rsquo;s a community. Let alone a predatory, USA based company like amazon.

Why didn’t Amazon buy Mozilla/Firefox?

I would have thought it would be strategically valuable for Amazon to own the only other viable browser to WebKit, but instead it’s just all falling apart.

Anyone buying Firefox will make the project instantly irrelevant. It’s not a product, it’s a community. Let alone a predatory, USA based company like amazon.