'market position' is a red herring -- it's a proxy for Developer Will. Developers care about the market share of what platform they write for, and they care about it more than principle.
You might as well say, if the developer community got its act together and stood on principle, no company could caputure 'market share' without their consent.
The problem is not the Mozilla non-profit knuckling under -- it is developers failing to have an institution similar to other professions, such as the Bar or AMA, giving them principles.
Developers have to care about market share. Writing code that no one ever runs is tilting at windmills.
A professional organization would have no control over that whatsoever. People have principles. Principles don't come from bureaucracies. Professional organizations are full of politics and politics and ethics are entirely orthogonal.
If anything professional organizations are used to undermine an individual's principles: Economic interests pressure the professional organization to approve some unethical behavior and then anyone who objects to it is pointed to the professional organization's approval and told to shut up and do it.
You might as well say, if the developer community got its act together and stood on principle, no company could caputure 'market share' without their consent.
The problem is not the Mozilla non-profit knuckling under -- it is developers failing to have an institution similar to other professions, such as the Bar or AMA, giving them principles.