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Not necessarily, a couple of the web's biggest properties came to be from it's founders other priorities. Google (backrub) started as a research project. Crai

• callmeed 17y ago
  How does Wikipedia relate to this at all? It's a non-profit.
  • aarongough 17y ago
    It may be a non-profit but it does still have people on the payroll, people who get paid to do what they love...
    • ZeroGravitas 17y ago
      And could be raking in millions in advertising dollars, like the non-profit Mozilla, if it chose to.
      • robin_reala 17y ago
        The Mozilla situation is rather different. It’s actually two entities: the non-profit Mozilla Foundation ( http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/ http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/ ) and the for-profit Mozilla Corporation ( http://www.mozilla.com/ http://www.mozilla.com/ ). MoFo shepherd the code, but MoCo do a lot of the business arrangements.
        • ZeroGravitas 17y ago
          I think it's more MoFo sets the direction, MoCo pays the tax. "The creation of the Mozilla Corporation should eliminate some of the thorny legal and tax issues that have been caused by the revenue-generating potential of Firefox and Thunderbird. The Mozilla Corporation will now handle all relationships with commercial companies and its status should allow more flexibility in this area. It is hoped that the income from the Mozilla Corporation will help the Mozilla project (including both the Foundation and the Corporation) to be more self-supporting, though donations will still be welcome." http://web.archive.org/web/20060907025204/http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7085 http://web.archive.org/web/20060907025204/http://www.mozilla...