This article is patently ridiculous. As if the article's central claim was not dubious enough, it opens with this:

> "Linus Torvalds is perhaps best known as the creator of Linux, but he has arguably had a bigger impact as the inventor of Git"

I had to check that this wasn't an April fool's day post. Linux powers a large proportion of servers on the internet, and has done so for a long time now. The popularity of Git is a relatively recent phenomenon.

> "Mozilla has seen better days. There was a time when it was indispensable to web freedom."

It's more indispensable to web freedom now than it has ever been.

> "there was real concern about the web's future with its primary gateway owned by one big, proprietary company"

I guess they've never heard of Google Chrome? A browser run by a company that's far scarier than Microsoft ever was in that period. The implications of a Google Chrome monopoly in the browser market on user freedom and privacy far outweigh the moral implications of Internet Explorer's monopoly. Not to mention the implications for web standards. Microsoft uses Blink in their Edge browser. If Mozilla were to concede in this area, Google would become the de-facto owner of web standards.