weblogs.mozillazine.org — From Mozilla CEO's Blog...$29.8M of this was associated with the Foundation. The bulk of this revenue was related to our search engine relationships, with the remainder coming from a combination of contributions, sales from the Mozilla store, interest income, and other sources. 2003 was $2.4M. 2004 was $5.8M.
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Closed AccountJan 3, 2007
Mozilla are now seeking out ways to distribute funds to groups supporting mozilla technologies. They do not plan to just sit on this money and do nothing. Firstly, hire more people to work on the codebase, and secondly help out their volunteer contributors with travel expenses, computing equipment and trips to open source attendences.
lightsout06Jan 3, 2007
i just wanted to say that I have always hated firefox and prefered opera over firefox for a while now. Firefox has always sucked on my windows and linux (especially) systems. It was bloated, slow, and was a resource hog....This was until i got fed up with the bugginess of flash 9 beta with opera and decided to apt-get firefox again. I got version 2.0 and I must say that it definently rocks. All the functionality and more that I get with opera out of the box I can get with firefox through extensions. Plus it seems to be less of a memory hog and loads up faster than it used to. Furthermore imo it isnt as ugly out the box. Good job mozilla.
lynxproJan 3, 2007
If Google wanted to ensure Firefox's continued development and superiority over Internet Explorer (and thus keep Microsoft at bay), they might look into giving their employees "raises" of 1/3rd of their existing salaries with the requirement that the "raise" be donated to the Mozilla Foundation. You can donate 1/3rd of your income to charities/not-for-profits and write it off on your (U.S.) taxes. Various companies have used such tactics to shore up PACs.This would look better on their financial reports to the SEC than outright "donating" money to a foundation that Google does not own their intellectual property. They could always use the excuse that the higher salaries ensure higher quality employees and is part of remaining competitive against the Yahoos and the Microsofts of the tech world...
geekeeJan 3, 2007
"The bulk of this revenue was related to our search engine relationships"Translation, Mozilla is Google's bitch.
jacko1990Jan 3, 2007
Anyway I have an idea. I mean surely they can't actually need all that money - so rather than just giving it all to the lawyers and stuffed shirts, they give some of it to an African charity (or simila). - and then we can know that by supporting Firefox, we are genuinely doing something worthwhile.
Closed AccountJan 4, 2007
They ship Yahoo as default in China
cuemkidMay 12, 2007
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