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As I understood it, AOL got rid of Mozilla/Netscape. While firing all (or most) of their fulltime coders, and moving the rest.. I fear that mozilla development will drop in the short-term. It may balance out in the long-run, but it will take a while for the Mozilla Foundation to adjust to it's new-found status. I agree with juanvaldes when he says that 2M won't be enough to live off for a lot of people for a long amount of time.
As for IE/Longhorn vs. Everyone Else, Mozilla (and others) will adapt. As much as we hate it, eventually Microsoft ends up holding all the cards... and if we (everyone else) want to survive, we'll have to support all (or most) of the stuff the new IE does.
I see this as Mozilla going from offensive mode (coding for fun and to gain new followers) to defensive (coding just to keep the people we already have).
All this is IMO, of course....
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