Ben Goodger, the lead engineer for Mozilla's wildly successful Firefox web browser, has posted on his blog that he is now employeed by Google instead of the Mozilla Foundation. He further notes that while he is now an employee of Google, he will still carry on his role in the Firefox project.
This is a very interesting development, and will most likely lead to a great deal of speculation concerning Google's motivations. This, of course, will lead many to the conclusion that Google may produce their own browser based on Firefox.
Whatever Google might be doing, if anything, with the Firefox technology, this is a clear signal that they are supporting the Mozilla project.
I'm glad to see a renewal of the browser wars, although, this is sort of an alternate browser war as none of the user bases can even touch the numbers of crappy IE. Still, it's great to have good choices. Google makes an awesome search engine, photo organizing software and web email. I bet their browser will be very slick.
Why didn't you link to Ben Goodger's blog?
Because I'm a goof. It's linked now.