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Mozilla makes $80 million a year. That's not huge enough?

• ZeroGravitas 17y ago
  And has over 50% market share in some locations and about a third globally. And both Chrome and Opera are supporting Theora too which adds to the total for this particular fight.
  • evgen 17y ago
    In this case the browser market share doesn't mean much. It is mindshare among the people providing the videos that matters. The way this particular battle is going to play out is that Mozilla will stick to its guns for a while and will continue to lose marketshare to Chrome, video providers will encode in HTML5/h.264 and Flash and eventually Firefox users on video sites will start seeing messages similar to the ones IE6 users see on some sites. The wildcard in this is Microsoft. If someone over there develops a clue they will jump on the h.264 bandwagon just to hose Mozilla -- IE8 will stop bleeding marketshare and this will provoke the video providers to move hard and fast to HTML5/h.264, forcing MozillaCorp to eat the costs of buying h.264 licenses and sticking a sharp stick in Adobe's eye as icing on the cake.
    • ZeroGravitas 17y ago
      The first video provider to offer HTML5 video happened nearly a year ago and was dailymotion, who happen to have a euro focus, hence greater Firefox (+ Opera) adoption in their userbase. So that's a data point to Mozilla in the video provider mindshare column. Wikipedia's worth a mention too.
• FooBarWidget 17y ago
  In revenue. About 50% of that go to operating costs. Developers need to eat too and they need to have a buffer for the near future. It's not wise to spend it all on giving unlimited H.264 licenses to the world.