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Mozilla Corporation — who basically just do Firefox — is a separate entity from the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Corporation gets commercial investment to pay Fi
by derefr 4y ago
Mozilla Corporation — who basically just do Firefox — is a separate entity from the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Corporation gets commercial investment to pay Firefox developers, so that the Mozilla Foundation doesn't need to pay or invest in it for it to do its thing.
This fire-wall (heh) ensures that Mozilla Foundation can never be said to be being influenced by corporate interests. All the corporate money stays inside Mozilla Corporation, i.e. inside Firefox.
- gilrain 4y agoYou’re thinking of Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. There is no Firefox Corporation.
- avian 4y agoI feel like this arrangement is probably because Firefox is the only Mozilla thing corporate interests find worth influencing.
- smsm42 4y agoI'm not sure how this makes anything better. The flagship product - Firefox - still depends on the outside money. Surely, the Foundation on top of it doesn't, but who cares about that?