Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jul 2007 18:05 UTC, submitted by Flatline
"On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Firefox. While the Mozilla Foundation supports a number of projects, its taxable subsidiary the Mozilla Corp. is responsible for only Firefox and Thunderbird. However, it has become increasingly clear that Firefox is the priority. The resources allocated to Firefox dwarf those allocated to Thunderbird and recent projects such as the initiative to improve Mozilla support exclude Thunderbird."
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Yes, money makes the world go 'round...
But I wonder, Firefox is Free, right? So if someone (say Debian) renames/rebrands it, where will the money from Ice Weasel go, to the Mozilla Foundation or to Debian?
The Mozilla foundation shouldn't bet too strong on a Free app to make money. What would happen if Microsoft decides to rename Firefox to something else and distribute it with Windows Vista SP1? Will Microsoft get all the money from the searches done with it? I'd say yes...
Ubuntu might decide to rename it too and get some money. And Fedora. And Suse...
I'm not saying I'd like this scenario, but the Mozilla Foundation should try to stay in good relationship with Open Source and not become too greedy or Firefox will split into 100 clones each one getting its share of the money.