> Is there a reason why Mozilla haven't used their position and funding to just hoover up all the most successful open source projects to create a more cohesive ecosystem?
How does this support their mission or make them money? They are rich, but also wasteful with their spendings. So anything has to show value for their Mission. And they are having enough projects of their own, just none which are really working well.
> Surely any addons - like uBlock Origin - which have massive usage should just be baked in to the browser by this point?
uBlock works fine on its own. It's probably better for them to be independent.
> The likes of Nextcloud and Mattermost would also be great additions
Nextcloud and Mattermost have both their own company. Do expect Mozilla to buy them out? Or should they just offer a hosted version with their own branding? What would be the value here?
> create a true rival to Microsoft and Google's offerings.
Mozilla has no real income outside of Google paying for a position in their Browser. And the money they have is far too low to compete with those behemoths in that space.
How does this support their mission or make them money? They are rich, but also wasteful with their spendings. So anything has to show value for their Mission. And they are having enough projects of their own, just none which are really working well.
> Surely any addons - like uBlock Origin - which have massive usage should just be baked in to the browser by this point?
uBlock works fine on its own. It's probably better for them to be independent.
> The likes of Nextcloud and Mattermost would also be great additions
Nextcloud and Mattermost have both their own company. Do expect Mozilla to buy them out? Or should they just offer a hosted version with their own branding? What would be the value here?
> create a true rival to Microsoft and Google's offerings.
Mozilla has no real income outside of Google paying for a position in their Browser. And the money they have is far too low to compete with those behemoths in that space.