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They don't have to cough up $5 million to support Flash. That's a priniciple I can understand.
by dtf 17y ago
They don't have to cough up $5 million to support Flash. That's a priniciple I can understand.
- blasdel 17y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they'd spent millions promoting Theora to the exclusion of all else (they reinvent the wheel by linking directly with liboggplay, instead of using libavcodec or the platform DS/QT/GS like everyone else) The salaries of all the cheerleaders and wheel-reinventors have to add up to something substantial. They've got piles of Google cash — they stopped begging for donations after their $60m search-referral windfall in 2006 got publicized, but they've gotten secretive about their financials after that.
- kinetik 17y agoGoogle will help you find more recent financial details. The 2008 financials are right here: http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/11/19/state-of-mozilla-and-2008/ http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/11/19/state-of-mozilla-a...
- blasdel 17y agoThanks, that's a lot clearer than it used to be. I had found the 1099s a while back, but they stopped showing the whole picture after the Mozilla Corporation was created to take the revenue.
- barrkel 17y agoI have little confidence in the stability of most video decoders in the face of corrupt data. The smaller the dependency set here, the better for stability.