Mozilla Goes For-Profit W/ Popular Firefox Browser
Mozilla finally sells out to make profit! The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation has set up a commercial subsidiary to cash in on the popularity of its flagship Firefox browser. Can you honestly blame them? Maybe now they can offer support to users and use some of the money to work on new projects. Good job Mozilla, but don’t send me a bill or charge me for FireFox!
With its flagship Firefox emerging as a legitimate alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s dominant Internet Explorer Web browser, the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation wants to cash in on the revenue-generation possibilities. Mozilla Corp., which will operate out of the Foundation’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, has been set up as a wholly owned commercial subsidiary to generate revenues to support development, testing, and productization of the various Mozilla open-source technologies. “The broad adoption of Mozilla Firefox has created significant economic value both in Firefox itself and in a commercial ecosystem that is developing around Firefox,” Mozilla said in a statement.
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