The Mozilla Foundation has seen their role as much larger than that for a long time. The first Mozilla manifesto came out in 2008 [1] and includes: The Mozill

The Mozilla Foundation has seen their role as much larger than that for a long time. The first Mozilla manifesto came out in 2008 [1] and includes: The Mozilla Foundation pledges to support the Mozilla Manifesto in its activities. Specifically, we will: - build and enable open-source technologies and communities that support the Manifesto's principles; build and deliver great consumer products that support the Manifesto's principles; - use the Mozilla assets (intellectual property such as copyrights and trademarks, infrastructure, funds, and reputation) to keep the Internet an open platform; - promote models for creating economic value for the public benefit; and - promote the Mozilla Manifesto principles in public discourse and within the Internet industry [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20081218222911/http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.en.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081218222911/http://www.mozill...