Leaving Mozilla

After more than 15 years at Mozilla, the author is departing on July 21, using up vacation time with a final working day of June 12. In his farewell message, he emphasizes that Mozilla employees should recognize their individual value, remember their obligation to the community that supports the browser, and resist trying to emulate larger competitors—instead focusing on being the distinctive alternative that drew users to Mozilla in the first place. He argues that Mozilla's past growth came from listening to its community and delivering what users wanted, not from attempting to copy bigger browsers.