Linked by Rahul on Thu 20th Nov 2008 03:17 UTC
Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and former CEO of Mozilla corporation has posted a report the details the financial status of Mozilla for this year. "Our revenue remains strong; our expenses focused. Mozilla's revenues (including both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation) for 2007 were $75 million, up approximately 12% from 2006 revenue of $67 million. As in 2006 the vast majority of this revenue is associated with the search functionality in Mozilla Firefox, and the majority of that is from Google. The Firefox userbase and search revenue have both increased from 2006"
Permalink for comment 337931
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2005-07-24
Mozilla Corporation is a 100+ employee, $67 million per year *business* which reinvests an unspecified portion of its profits back into Mozilla Foundation. Nominally a subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation, it is essentially a bubble within the Foundation which can be as corporate and profit-seeking as it likes, loop-holing through the restrictions of the Foundation's nonprofit status. Many people do not realize this since Mozilla puts on its "Foundation" face when that suits its purposes, and its "Corporation" face when it doesn't.
I agree that when a Webkit-based browser overtakes them their stated goals will be furthered. And I guarantee that the Mozilla Corp management team will be in an absolute tizzy when it happens.
I, on the other hand, will be delighted to see true competition come to the Free web browser market for the first time.
Edited 2008-11-21 00:10 UTC