@Humpleupagus @waltercool Like these fellers:

https://github.com/mozilla/application-services

https://github.com/mozilla/performance-data

https://github.com/mozilla/bigquery-etl

https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-datahub-ingestion

"2.4k repositories" (thank you, jithub, for shortening four digits into two digits, a "." and a "k") at https://github.com/orgs/mozilla/repositories?type=all

Good luck enumerating them and understanding how they all fit together, let alone actually running all of them in production with appropriate hostnames and maintaining parallel infrastructure and a configuration distribution system so that all of your copies of Firefox use them, and then keeping up with changes upstream so that when they spin up a new service, you are using your own version.

It's the worst kind of abuse of open-source.

Fred Brooks said in his book that a project's structure tends to reflect the structure of the organization that created it. Draw your own conclusions about Mozilla, but having had my hands in the Firefox codebase before Eich was ousted, it seems like the organization is massive, disorganized, and insular.