This is why you don’t do shareholders!

Sure! Literally anyone haha

I don’t “understand” what you’re asking. When software is open/libre, anyone can take over a project.

Yes, “the community taking over” is the entire ideology behind open source. Thats what it means. Anyone can develop it. It doesn’t mean that it needs to happen, just that part of the freedom you have is to do so. You’re conflating the two.

I know what it is, I was just saying that the community would take over Firefox if need be.

I’m not saying it would be easy, but that’s the whole point behind open source. We’d have to at least try.

Who cares if it’s a soft fork as long as it’s open source? The point is to keep the fork clean and if Mozilla fails, the community can just take it over.