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@Markus: *You* don't have to support the for-profit companies if you don't want to. You can personally trust any CA you like, and reap the benefits/pitfalls of such decisions. It would be unwise to make trust decisions based on some misplaced desire to "stick it to the man."
Mozilla is making trust decision on behalf of all of its users. Its criteria should be based on the operational practices of the CA and RA. I don't think how profitable the entity is would even be a consideration.
As to the warning message, it's intended to protect the user first, not the web property. If result is "big damages" as you say, then presumably such large damage can be mitigated by such a web site selecting a CA that Mozilla trusts, for very little (even even no) money.