I don’t get the impression he’s fallen in the trap at all.

More so, he sees it for what it is. It’s a tool that can help, but needs smart people that can validate its output. It can’t design entire systems nor effectively solve real world business problems on its own. It’s not going anywhere, so may as well adapt to our new reality.

Worst part is google could kill Firefox at anytime because they provide a very large amount of Mozilla’s funding.

Does everyone here have a wired subscription or something?

It’s paywalled. No way the commenters here read the article.