&gt; Are <i>pensionists</i> more important to Mozilla than the people actually building the web?<p>&quot;Free and open&quot; can mean a lot more than &quot;obeys FOSS principles.&quot; It can refer to making the internet accessible to the disadvantaged, the physically or mentally disabled, and the people who just find the present web too complex for them. There are a number of ways in which you can increase the number of people <i>benefitting from the things the Internet enables</i> by just creating user-agents (in a software or hardware sense) with interfaces tailored to these groups, rather than pushing through HTML5 features or whatever else.<p>Another way to think about it: imagine the sort of <i>political opinion</i> bubble that someone ends up in if they get all their news from TV&#x2F;radio&#x2F;newspapers, and none of it from the Internet. Getting some of these people <i>using</i> the Internet can actually sway (or, more accurately, <i>inform</i>) their beliefs enough to change voting patterns, especially regarding issues like technology, surveillance, and IP-rights policy.