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Any accountants in the room? It'd be good to get an informed view on the financial statement. In particular, the oft-spoken view that Mozilla is so critically

Any accountants in the room? It'd be good to get an informed view on the financial statement. In particular, the oft-spoken view that Mozilla is so critically dependent on Google funding that it is, in practice, prevented from doing anything that would displease big G.

NlightNFotis 3y ago
You don't need an accountant for that - you can read the financial statement (this one is pretty simple). From about $593mil revenue in their income statement (page 4), $510mil is derived from _Royalties_. Later, on page 13, they explain what _Royalties_ consists of, and I quote: > Royalties - Mozilla provides the Firefox web browser, which is a free and open-source web browser initially developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Corporation. Mozilla incorporates search engines of its customers as a default status or an optional status available in the Firefox web browser. Mozilla generally receives royalties at a certain percentage of revenues earned by its customers through their search engines incorporated in the Firefox web browser. Now, I leave it to your judgement if you think that a company that derives 86% of its revenue from the above is dependent on Google ;-)