This is a nice story but it's untrue. We had no volunteers who actually worked on Mozilla code and who "rebelled" (Hampton Catlin et al. did not contribute as part of "The volunteers"). The entire late March to early April drama was too fast to measure any change in volunteer contributions to Mozilla code. Volunteers saying they'd stop volunteering wasn't a factor in what went down.

Worse, you are making stuff up in claiming that volunteers in substantial numbers "propped up" Mozilla. The Google money was still good enough to pay all essential personnel.