I work for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation (not to be confused with the Mozilla Corporation, the Foundation's subsidiary responsible for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client). For more about me and what I'm doing, see the “Personal” section of this page and my weblog entries below.

Asymmetric competition

In previous posts I've discussed the theory of disruptive innovation (sometimes referred to as disruptive technology) created by Clayton Christensen and his associates, whether Firefox is a disruptive innovation in the sense Christensen uses, and the value network for Firefox. In this post I discuss potential "asymmetric competition" between the Mozilla project and Microsoft; much of my discussion is in the context of Firefox and IE, but my comments are meant to encompass the project as a whole. ...

mozilla/asymmetric-competition

2005-09-09