> Not sure how much the devs are paid if any Well enough that they can hire a few hundred full-time people, apparently, yes? Including some people who should

> Not sure how much the devs are paid if any Well enough that they can hire a few hundred full-time people, apparently, yes? Including some people who should clearly have no shortage of other job offers (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward ). > Last I heard, the IRS was investigating them The IRS is doing an audit (which is not the same thing as an investigation, by the way). The IRS is also auditing, right this second, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. In fact, last I checked, for companies like Apple or Microsoft they had full-time auditors assigned to them on an ongoing basis. As far as the memory leaks thing... That's a developer-driven project, like many other things at Mozilla. Most developers there are not paid to do a specific task; they're paid to do the right thing. Just like Google doesn't hire you for a particular project, by the way.