> I'm not sure what he gains from continued intransigence offers after Mozilla admits their mistake and apologizes.
What would he gain from submission to Mozilla? Either way he gains $0 for all the work he's done to improve the Internet for millions of people.
He gains Mozilla's distribution model and audience, which allows users of Firefox to download add-ons from their browser's UI and updates automatically, rather than having to manually pull an extension file from a Github page for each new release and install it.