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Actually the Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) owns the Mozilla Corporation (for-profit), the corporation handles all the development. http://www-archiv
by huxley 14y ago
Actually the Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) owns the Mozilla Corporation (for-profit), the corporation handles all the development.
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/reorganization/ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/reorganization/
In some ways it is about money, Google pays Mozilla about $300 million a year for search engine placement and click-through ads. That accounts for the vast majority of all of Mozilla's revenue (in 2010, Google paid $115 million and that was 85% of Mozilla's revenue).
- shardling 14y agoThat is literally just an implementation detail. The controlling interest is the nonprofit, the for-profit part exists for tax/etc reasons.