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They have a contract with Google that guarantees them $1B over 3 years. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-paying-mozilla-300-million-per-year-for-search-dea
by beefman 13y ago
They have a contract with Google that guarantees them $1B over 3 years.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-paying-mozilla-300-million-per-year-for-search-deal/65921 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-paying-mozilla-300-mill...
- yeukhon 13y ago1B is very little. I would focus on your other point: So when resources are diverted away while there's still work to do, you should see red flags and look for better focus right away.
- dllthomas 13y agoI'm not sure 1B is very little - it's thousands of programmer-years. It is weird to characterize 1B over 3 years as "billions" unless there are substantial funds coming from other sources.
- tedmielczarek 13y agoThat's the vast majority of Mozilla's income, you can check the publicly-available financials. It's small potatoes compared to the companies Mozilla competes against: Google, Apple, Microsoft.