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Mozilla made $72 million from Firefox
technoogle.com — Last year Mozilla made $72 million from Firefox, The money comes from the Google Search box on the top right, when you search using that box and you click on Google ads on the results page Firefox gets about 80%.
L0rdDiabl0- 3118 diggs
- digg it
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -22/+204And they deserve every penney.
- awwwmang, on 10/12/2007, -29/+45yes they do. they made probally the best web browser ever concived.
- rmccabe916, on 10/12/2007, -169/+13*cough* copied *cough*
- Bowski, on 10/12/2007, -89/+25Indeed they do!!!
- alexonix, on 10/12/2007, -20/+22Way better than IE or anything else. I hate when I come to someone elses place and see that all they have is IE... It's so slow compared to FF, and no extensions, no cool skins... Sad thing is they will rip off everything for the IE coming with Vista, and most likely get it wrong.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -64/+20Sadly, out of the box, Firefox is actually significantly slower, has more problems rendering, and has less extensions than IE. All of your points there were wrong. Firefox even has more bugs and flaws the IE, just most are widely unexploited
I do agree that they deserved every penny they got, but it is in no way the best or even safest browser.
For fear of being deemed biased, I won't reveal what I think is truly the best browser. - Chozabu, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22that is kinda cool...
but what do they do with all that money?? - johnkimble, on 10/12/2007, -19/+7most definately.
Go Mozilla! - brettotte1, on 10/12/2007, -31/+13Please learn to spell! You make digg users look retarded!
- dopefish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15If they are going to keep dishing out more and more improvements to an already amazing web browser, then let them have their millions!
Next time I search, I will search from the Google Bar in Mozilla. :) - linnerd40, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12I agree, if anyone every deserved $72million, then it is Mozilla. Firefox is the BEST web browser in the world there is absolutely no competition. I mean, who really wants to use IE when Firefox is sooo much better and safer? Great job Mozilla!
- Cglass, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Firefox isn't the best browser? Just LOL at you, n00b.
- iamsam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Indeed. I consider it my contribution to supporting great software every time I use that great little search box.
- steubens, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1@ brettotte1
So true. - ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0GOOD ON THEM!!!
KEEP IT UP GUYS!! - johnnysokko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Firefox ..... has less extensions than IE."
Internet Explorer has extensions? This is news to me...
- L0rdDiabl0, on 10/12/2007, -14/+30Very True, and I hope they make more money.
- t0ny, on 10/12/2007, -12/+19Me too. I'm going to search from there more often :).
- theonlybigboss, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17yea i almost never use that box, but not anymore, they deserve all the money they can get
so i'm searching from it now :-D - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23just searching from the box doesn't earn them money.. you need to actually click ads in the search results after doing so for them to earn anything.
- Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28For those who are not aware, to search with that box easier type "Ctrl+K" to jump right up there. It is the easiest searching ever!
(As a side note, "Ctrl+L" to go to the Location bar, too) - crimson117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14You can also do ctrl-e to get to the search box. Less of a reach than ctrl-k :)
- fkuall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5and, even if you have customized your firefox to not display that box, you can ctrl+e/k and it'll bring up that box
- Pepper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's nice to know we can contribute back somehow :D
- newmind, on 10/12/2007, -4/+76Anybody have a link that confirms this number rather then a silly blog post that links to another blog post?
- eyrieowl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13amen. that number seems a bit high...i mean, i know firefox is popular and all, but...*that* many click-throughs???
- ahsteele, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Especially when you consider that one of the biggest draws of Firefox is its ability to block advertising. I guess I just don't see the majority of its users clicking through.
- laelfrog, on 10/12/2007, -50/+6Every penny
- GeekyGirl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17This would be very cool, if it is true. The number sounds a bit high to me. I'm with newmind - can anyone point to a more authoritative source to confirm this information?
- {don}, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24"Firefox's revenue share with Google (the search toolbar in the browser) generates about $50 million a year, he [Mitch Kapor] said."
— from a speech by Mitch Kapor on February 14, 2006, at the Open Source
Business Conference in San Francisco, as reported by Dan Farber on ZDNet - jijin, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2@{don}
Now link me... audio/video > text
I'm looking myself too... but you seem to have a link - jijin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20found this on C|Net:
In earlier versions of Firefox, Google had been a resident on the upper right-hand box of the browser--and it is the same in version 1.0. Firefox users can use a pull-down menu from the search box to navigate the Web with Yahoo, Amazon.com and others. And they can change the default from Google to other search engines such as Ask Jeeves.
Baker said Mozilla has assembled a "set of different search partners" including Yahoo. She would not say whether there is a financial relationship between Mozilla and Google. But typically, Google pays its partners a share of revenue from search-related advertising.
http://news.com.com/Google star of Firefoxs new browser/2100-1032_3-5449172.html
UPDATE: I Found the story {don} is talking about:
From ZDNet:
In terms of business models, Mitch pointed to his experience with Firefox (he is the chairman of the Mozilla Foundation). Firefox has 60 million users a week. If you can command a lot of attention, that%u2019s what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention,%u201D Mitch said. Firefox%u2019s revenue share with Google (the search toolbar in the browser) generates about $50 million a year, he said.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2586 - mcduckov, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17You guys are all pointing to blogs. Does anyone else's blood boil with the very mention of a blog? I try to be evenhanded but my very first inclination with a blog is to report it as lame. More often than not it is some basement dwelling geek who would say or do anything to get enough eyeballs to earn enough money to pay the security on his first apartment (and first rubber girl).
- {don}, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24"Firefox's revenue share with Google (the search toolbar in the browser) generates about $50 million a year, he [Mitch Kapor] said."
- L0rdDiabl0, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13I would've pointed to a more authoritative source, if I could find one.
- kimos, on 10/12/2007, -10/+16If you couldn't find an authoritative source, you shouldn't have linked to it at all...
- migsims, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8I think this is great they deserve all of it.
- ConEEE, on 10/12/2007, -7/+66http://www.calacanis.com/2006/03/06/firefox-mozilla-corporation-mozilla-foundation-made-72m-last/
How about you link to the actual source of the story, rather than some guy's blog?!- gekkokid, on 10/12/2007, -11/+9thanks for the real story :)
- NickyBatts, on 10/12/2007, -79/+11Yes, it is true that they deserve it, but is this front page worthy??? No.
- mattyG, on 10/12/2007, -30/+9i dont think youre worthy of using firefox
- boscorelle, on 10/12/2007, -21/+13long live the Fox
- stevetures, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12That'd be nice to see if they could tell us what they're going to do with that money.
- 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Yes indeed - if it were going to fund more open source projects, that would be quite nice. They could even start doing something along the lines of Google's Summer of Code. Lots of possibilities.
- thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13pretty cool. But how does all that work? When you've got so many people that contributed to it, but the mozilla foundation is fairly small (IIRC? I could be wrong, of course)... then the mozilla foundation basically got a bunch of free labor and made millions?
I'm just curious how this works- Scarblac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mozilla has about 50 employees, I think? (Moz Corp had 36 when it started, the non profit probably has some and they've probably grown) And they're hiring.
I think most of Firefox development by far isn't done by volunteers, but by paid developers (as with most big open source projects, actually).
They have lots of operating costs, of course.
- Scarblac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mozilla has about 50 employees, I think? (Moz Corp had 36 when it started, the non profit probably has some and they've probably grown) And they're hiring.
- aztechclan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8what a great way to pay for this great browser. Keep using that search box folks!
- mattspammail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Doubt it costs 72 million bucks for firefox. The first million would've funded it for a few years.
That being said, I'm a devoted user. I'm all for capitalism. Nothing wrong with that! - toddv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If as a comment above says, Mozilla has 50 employees, how can the first million fund it for several years? I could believe 72 million funding a 50-employee company for 4 years, maybe, assuming an average salary of 100K/year and that an employee's cost to a company is generally 3 times their salary once all the hiring and support costs are considered, and some extra left over for (very tightly controlled!!!!) expenses such as land, building, and equipment lease or amortization.
- mattspammail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Doubt it costs 72 million bucks for firefox. The first million would've funded it for a few years.
- DietrichM, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17It's strange, a year ago people had to donate to get them the money they needed to just pay one advertising in the NY Times. Now they make $72 million. Scary how it can change that fast.
- lnxaddct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It'd be nice if this were all true, but every source so far is a blog.
- pyr0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34It's nice to know that nobody ever bothers reading the article anymore.
The original source:
http://www.calacanis.com/2006/03/06/firefox-mozilla-corporation-mozilla-foundation-made-72m-last/
states that it is unconfirmed. - jijin, on 10/12/2007, -18/+10No Digg I cannot verify at all
I got a bridge in California to sell all the diggers of this story- mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4haha, thank you. my sentiments exactly.
- mercnboy3, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4There are bridges in california, that comment only works if there were no bridges in California.
- NickyBatts, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I wholeheartedly agree... but we all got dug into 6 foot graves.
- jijin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0@mercnboy3
Ok so I got this really nice bridge... It's a relativly new red suspention bridge. I'll let you take it off my hands for a MEASLY $2 million. However you would have to pick it up from the San Fransico bay area.
So we have a deal?
(Ummmm the WHOLE point of the statment is to show absurdity, and a half-hearted attempt to take advantage of the gullible)
- kidlinux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I'm curious to know how they're going to invest that $72 million.
- AToMusK, on 10/12/2007, -20/+5they can invest in laser plugins that shoot people that u dont want on ur computer
- DrSquanto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I wonder how much of that is profit
- nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation ) -
"Upon its creation, the Mozilla Corporation took over several areas from the Mozilla Foundation, including the development of Firefox and Thunderbird and the management of relationships with businesses."
... so I'm hoping it goes towards development and publicity. - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Pretty much all of it. Mozilla's only "cost" is supporting the servers and distribution efforts. I believe the employees draw salaries (though not exorbant ones), and most of the Foundation's/Corporation's members are actually employees of other companies (Google employs a few of them IIRC).
But of course, the more money they make, the faster Firefox is going to spread, and the more developers they're going to be able to payroll to make the product better. It's a good way to keep their costs down, keep development continuous, and keep the product free. It's an Open Source business model that actually works, and that's why Firefox is garnering so much attention right now.
I'm still crossing my fingers on an IPO.. I'd love to get in on bottom basement and invest in Mozilla. - jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mozilla Corporation has one stakeholder, Mozilla Foundation. That's the way I like it, that way they don't have to bend to the pressures of the stakeholder in order to increase their profits.
- DrSquanto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think you're giving a low-ball estimate to the costs needed to put out a browser and maintain the company. But certainly quite a lot of the revenue is profit. Also, can a nonprofit can come to market?
- nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation ) -
- Plezops, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8They do indeed. Boy, shove this into Microsofts face.... see what being free can do! It can help you make money! This is a great way to keep Firefox ad-free and a definite reason to continue with the Firefox improvements.
- ditoa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6What would be great would be if Microsoft put their search bar pointing to Google so they made money from Google from people using IE haha.
- JoshuaWood, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but with the new comment system, if it's longer than 2 lines, the rest of the comment is cut off. This is in I.E. Firefox seems to display fine.
- t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2keep firefox ad free? you freaking moron it's open source.
- sklegg, on 10/12/2007, -14/+9This is all rumor at this point. No Digg.
- DigitalGeek, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5I agree They Do deserve Every Cent. As a matter of fact I think I'll Start Donating to Mozilla.
- b0nde, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5 Yes they deserve it, very much!! Another way of supporting financial is by using their store, but I did not know that they made money when users press the ads on google ( When searching from FF ) :-)
- lostboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13this is unsubstantiated, from calacanis blog:
http://www.calacanis.com/2006/03/06/firefox-mozilla-corporation-mozilla-foundation-made-72m-last/
"The best piece of information I got out of BarCampLA was that Firefox, which is produced by the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, made $72M last year and is on target to have 120 employees this year. I have no idea if this is true (anyone?), but it makes sense. I mean, there have to be 72M people using Firefox out there, and making $1 a year seems low to me! Mark Pincus brought this topic up recently" - Googled, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Nice, I'm going to seach more and click the adds :)
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I think it's a really great way to "donate" to the Mozilla guys without going out of your way to do anything. Actually, it's really great that the thing that makes them so much money is one of the best features of the browser
- thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2hmm, this thing seems to be truncating me at 2 lines of text. I'm just curious if the mozilla foundation essentially got a bunch of free labor and then made millions, and if so, how everyone feels about it.
- xocomil, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I'm fine with the Mozilla Foundation making money off of Firefox. It is a great browser. If people are willing to contribute code and that code generates revenue that helps Firefox become a better browser than that's even better. Anything that helps Firefox is good for the community in general.
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Hmm, I wonder if Apple has a similar (albeit smaller scale) thing going on with Safari?
J - jkeegan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Maybe they can spend some of that money implementing disable-output-escaping..
http://digg.com/technology/Mozilla_refuses_to_fully_implement_XSLT_in_Firefox- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If you read the full Bugzilla report on that bug, they've addressed pretty plainly that the only thing implementing this feature would do is to help people generate faulty XML/XSLT. In fact, the proper behavior was even demonstrated in the Bugzilla report; wrap the escape character like so (BBcode to SGML of course): [foo]'[/foo].
Note that this Bug was also filed and closed in 2002, so it's been a non-issue for a very, very long time. Mozilla's trying their best to follow the red letters of the W3C wherever possible; if you continue to have a problem, re-post the bug and ask for an updated discussion, but I don't believe you're going to get a different outcome.
Welcome to XML. It sucks (most of the time). - jkeegan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0In reply to geminitojanus's comment (a sibling of this one):
If you read further down in the bug report than that, you'll see that there are many examples which disprove that assertion. Any time where you have XML from an external source that you can't control/modify (such as my example of a Google Earth kml file), you can't change the fact that users' HTML comments are contained within CDATA sections. The only way to render this data as the HTML that it's intended to be is to use disable-output-escaping="true". Character entities are a red herring - they don't justify the need for disable-output-escaping - the example I just cited does.
This bug has been ignored for a long time. Ignoring something for a long time doesn't fix anything. This issue is still valid, as it's a huge flaw in their XSLT support. Most of us want very much to push for Firefox above all other browsers.. this weakness hurts our cause.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If you read the full Bugzilla report on that bug, they've addressed pretty plainly that the only thing implementing this feature would do is to help people generate faulty XML/XSLT. In fact, the proper behavior was even demonstrated in the Bugzilla report; wrap the escape character like so (BBcode to SGML of course): [foo]'[/foo].
- Tommstein, on 10/12/2007, -47/+3Damn, maybe I need to make me a ***** browser too.
- Tommstein, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2Boo, I was so wrong too. I take it that most Firefox users are assmonkeys that came straight from Internet Explorer and have never used anything else and don't know how ***** their browser is compared to everything else.
- zero5549, on 10/12/2007, -22/+5ORLY
- JQP123, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7Technically, since the Mozilla Corporation is now a "for-profit" entity with their revenue derived from an advertising arrangement with Google, shouldn't Firebird be classified as "ad-ware"?
- Wolfman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6No, because it's not MAKING you view the ads in return for the service. Infact, you (by preferring, and using google) are REQUESTING the ads.
- Nameless1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Hm, they made $72KK by controlling what? 15% of the browser market? Well, Microsoft should use google search - 80% of the market would yield them $384KK. Pocket money for Bill :)
- vlsi0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Hm, they made $72KK by controlling what? 15% of the browser market? Well, Microsoft should use google search - 80% of the market would yield them $384KK. Pocket money for Bill :) [reply]"
Exactly; not exactly interest/exciting/cool news at all.. if MS put a ad and gained ONE dollar the flames would burn with people putting more fuel on it.. yawn?
- vlsi0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Hm, they made $72KK by controlling what? 15% of the browser market? Well, Microsoft should use google search - 80% of the market would yield them $384KK. Pocket money for Bill :) [reply]"
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Digg++ for new and exciting business models. Just make a redirect for Google!
- scdicks, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7BS. No way they made 72M from ad clicks
- Scheissenegger, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Agree.
Let's say they get an average of .30 cents from every ad click, there are 72000000/0.30 = 240000000 million ad clicks needed to make the 72 million dollar.Firefox is downloaded 1.5 million times so every the average click rate of a FF user is 240000000/1500000 = 160. I don't even remember when I last clicked a Google ad so I think this is impossible!
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And by the way: You can also make profit with FF, just take a look at this site (in Internet Exploder): http://www.profit42.com - ditoa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I believe they did. Think about it. They probably have around 10M people using it as their primary browser. Plus around 20-30M people who use it for a few weeks. Plus about 50M people who use the browser for just a few days. Everytime they use the built in google search features Google give them a "finders fee" as they do for other people. Now those 10M people use the browser a lot. Also Firefox users tend to use the internet for more than just email (ie online shopping, etc.). This means they probably use the built in Google search features. I know I use it about 10 times a day. Say every time I use it they earn $0.01. They get 10c from just me every day, for 10 people thats $1. Times that by 10M people a day and thats $1M a day! Now I doubt the full 10M use it every day so lets say its 3M. Thats still $300k a day. Now lets say these people only use Firefox on weekdays (at work for example) thats around 261 days a year (depending on where you live, your working hours, etc). Now $300K a day times by 261 days is 78,300,000. As my figures are guesstimates we can't be sure but from just 10M people, using Firefox just at work and searching 10 times a day (I easily do this more some days probably at around 50-60 searches) a company can make nearly $100M.
- jijin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2@ditoa
Ok... now prove Google is giving MozDev money - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"Let's say they get an average of .30 cents from every ad click, there are 72000000/0.30 = 240000000 million ad clicks needed to make the 72 million dollar.Firefox is downloaded 1.5 million times so every the average click rate of a FF user is 240000000/1500000 = 160. I don't even remember when I last clicked a Google ad so I think this is impossible!"
First of all, let's get our constants down. Firefox has been downloaded 150 Million times (as reported here on Digg itself, Wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Market_adoption ). I'm willing to conceed that even 2/3rds of those downloads could be people installing Firefox after a format, or because of an upgrade, etc, so let's go with 50 million machines with Firefox (which IMO sounds a bit high, but somewhere inline; there have only been around a billion computers ever made, and saying that half of those are on the Internet as desktop machines (500 Million), and that Firefox is on 1/10th of them (50 Million)).
So let's do our math again with these numbers.
with a 3/10ths a penny per click (which I think is kinda low, but anyone can dispute this number), we get the same 240,000,000 clicks neccesary. Going up to 1/2 a penny brings us down to 150,000,000 clicks, so I'll use that as my window in the calculations.
50 million active installs:
For 3/10ths: 240,000,000 / 50,000,000 = 4.8 clicks per Firefox Install.
For 1/2: 150,000,000 / 50,000,000 = 3 clicks per Install.
30 million active installs:
3/10s: 240,000,000 / 30,000,000 = 8 clicks per Firefox Install.
1/2: 150,000,000 / 30,000,000 = 5 clicks per Install.
And just for a control, 10 million.
3/10s: 240,000,000 / 10,000,000 = 24 clicks per Firefox Install.
1/2: 150,000,000 / 10,000,000 = 15 clicks per Install.
So varying from 3 ad clicks per install to 24 ad clicks per install doesn't sound too unreasonable now does it? I know personally I used Google ads quite a bit, and that number's probably somewhere around 500 clicks a year (about 40 a month, or just a bit more than twice a day, which isn't that unreasonable, especially when you're looking for the lowest price online and click 8 ads in one sitting). So I don't find the numbers to be unreasonable in the least. Unsubstanciated, yes (as the link gives us no proof). But unreasonable, not a bit. - Arlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is in reply to Geminitojanus:
I'm not following your math; from what I can tell, you're saying 150 million clicks would equate to 72 million or so dollars. And you then give a figure of half a penny per click. Looks to me like you're off by a factor of a hundred here.
Easy mistake to make, I know, but what does this do to your argument?
- Scheissenegger, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Agree.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6Unconfirmed rumor. No digg.
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I've been using the google toolbar alot....I'll start using the one that comes with firefox :)
- caldroun, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Sounds good to me and I agree, they deserve all of it.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I hope it's true. I like the little firefox. She makes my web-surfing enjoyable.
It could be great seeing her get paid. - aletornw, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2i'm very interested to know where the money goes.. there were rumors of corruption of the mozilla founds
- link_36p, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3lol i never use that box but ill start now :|
thats very little effort to help everyones favorite free browser :D - ubern00b, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Not one legitimate source no real confirmation of this. This should not be on the front page and is spam, used to get you to crappy blog pages. And by the way $72 million might just be considered a profit.
Copied from the Mozilla Foundation about page.
"Established in July, 2003, with start-up support from America Online's Netscape division, the Mozilla Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open-source software project. The Foundation has been incorporated as a California not-for-profit corporation to ensure that the Mozilla project continues to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property and funds and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal exposure while participating in open-source software projects.
Please consider supporting the Mozilla Foundation by making a contribution.
We thank the more than 500 individuals and organizations who have already made a donation.
Read the July 15 announcement about the creation of the Mozilla Foundation.
Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors:
* Mitch Kapor, Chair
* Mitchell Baker
* Brian Behlendorf
* Brendan Eich
* Joi Ito
The Mozilla Foundation is a California non-profit corporation exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(c)3. Donations are tax deductible."
Flame away children.- jijin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4PREACH IT BROTHER...
My thoughts exactly +1 to you - NOFXY, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1 1 for ubern00b and 1 for jijin for using the rating system how it should be used. and to stay on topic. there should be a blog section for digg. its just makes sense, then those who dont like reading blogs can just skip them. :)
- NickyBatts, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I have no idea how you posted the exact same thing I did and got praise, whilst I got shat upon.
Still... +1 for you.
- jijin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4PREACH IT BROTHER...
- niqhil, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Hmm clicking ads will make Google rich not firefox. .noway to verify if firefox got that money. .Google won't possible give away 80% to Mozilla. .
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2believe me, 20% of 70 million is nothing to google anymore. plus, google rocks, if any search engine becomes monopolistic, i'm glad its google. (OH GOD WHAT IF IT WERE MSN)
- tysonwilliams, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1ALWAYS AND ONLY use that box out of habit by now... I am glad they made some decent cash out it - the product is worth it
- krystianantoni, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2gr8, to hear they r doing well :-)
- dstart, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I hope they re-invest the money into the Firefox product.
- texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Good for Mozilla...and they deserve every single penny.
Also, VERY smart and unobtrusive way of making the cashola and not forcing anything on anyone.
*two thumbs up for Moz* - Darkshine, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3It's probably not all the Google search box. How much do you wager that some also comes from Google's Firefox Start page? I use that almost more than the box.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Who says you can't make any money doing things the right way?
- lifesun1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I think that is great. It is a new world out there and a new model for wealth creation. Hopefully they continue to sink this back into making such a quality product.
- w84death, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1nice:P
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