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see 375 mio. $ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.14.65.157 (talk) 14:12, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
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Is there a list of corporate sponsors? I heard Google and Nokia are "involved". A-giau 15:53, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Filed this (implicit) request as mozilla.org bug report #329678 Zak Greant 22:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
May also be worth mentioning the ten thousand the MF donated to OpenBSD for OpenSSH developement, which came from money earned through the Google search income. Janizary 23:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Come on... is it REALLY sometimes abbreviated MOFO?--XMBRIAN 02:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Alright, I'll put it back in then.--XMBRIAN 16:03, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
The use of 'MoFo' is restricted to a few insiders. It is not a common abbreviation - the top 100 Google results for 'Mofo' show zero results (other than this page). I've taken it out from the introductory sentence. Perhaps it could be mentioned later in the piece. Earthlyreason (talk) 05:09, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
There's no section about the name Mozilla being a play on words on Godzilla? And the dinosaur logo? Where did the name Mozilla come from? --24.249.108.133 18:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Take a look at the Mozilla_(mascot) page. Earthlyreason (talk) 05:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
One thing that has never been clear (to me) is Mozilla's relationship to Netscape/AOL/Time Warner. Can somebody answer explicitly and unambiguously the following questions and add the info to the article?
Ham Pastrami 08:12, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.6.31.73 (talk) 14:27, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
The article says the board has 7 members, and then lists 6. Any word on who the secret illuminati representative is? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.172.93.221 (talk) 20:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
4 employees, and they're pulling in 66 million dollars per year? What happened to the notion of sharing the wealth...? They should set up offices in some beautiful picturesque tourist town, and add to the local economy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.201.218.65 (talk) 18:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
All the employees are paid through the Mozilla Corporation (100+ employees). Additionally the Mozilla Foundation provides funding for various open source projects. See Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2007 Kbrosnan (talk) 18:34, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Is the foundation owned by Time Warner? Because I think it's part of AOL. --172.206.85.126 (talk) 09:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
It is not. AOL did provide the foundation 2 million USD donation, released the trademarks and some physical assets to the fledgling foundation. Kbrosnan (talk) 18:42, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
The infobox on this page says that the Mozilla Foundation has 4 employees. The history indicates that it has been this way for quite some time. While I can't find any source indicating that it doesn't indeed have 4 employees, I just find it very unlikely that a company of this much importance would have only 4 employees. --Sauronjim (talk) 03:07, 13 April 2009 (UTC) The article itself lists six members of the Board of Directors, as well as at least four other employees, which I would take to mean that the Foundation must have a minimum of ten employees. --Sauronjim (talk) 03:20, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
This article only has one reference. seems like some more details could be sourced. any takers? -Tracer9999 (talk) 16:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Would anyone be opposed to combining Mozilla Japan, Mozilla China, and Mozilla Europe into one article such as User:EvilHom3r/International_Mozilla_Organizations (or perhaps "Mozilla Affiliates")? I have also merged Mozilla Online into this article since it seems pointless to link to a one-line article. Mozilla Messaging could potentially be merged into this article too given its short nature. EvilHom3r (talk) 04:45, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
According to Mozilla, the current branding for the Mozilla Foundation is their wordmark, set in Meta Bold, which has replaced the classic Mozilla dino head logo. So, I'm swapping out dino head with the wordmark in this article.
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—Waldhorn (talk) 07:00, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
I cannot understand the Mozilla Foundation's corporate governance from this article.
The "open source bona fides" of Mozilla's Firefox had me assume that it was a non-profit organization, as this article states, so I was surprised to find from a link in the latest release notes to its free video chat service: Firefox Hello that Mozilla's parent company is the for-profit Telefónica.
In the History section, the article also notes that the Mozilla Organization (a term switched for the Mozilla Foundation later in the same para - no explanation given) was initially set up by Netscape (a for-profit), a subsidiary of AOL (a for-profit), with AOL's funding.
The Mozilla Organization was initially either a wholly owned subsidiary, of AOL or of both AOL and Netscape, or it was set up as a non-profit. If it was set up as a non-profit then it could not later have been purchased by a for-profit - Telefonica - as Mozilla states is the case. There can only be one parent company, the applicable term for more is simply: shareholder, but in any case a non-profit organization cannot have shareholders or owners (see e.g: Nonprofit organization. I therefore find it hard from the literature to see how a non-profit can be bought or owned by a for-profit, yet apparently we are to understand that Mozilla (non-profit) has been or is.
To make matters worse, the article's introduction states that: "The subsidiary (the Mozilla Corporation) is 100% owned by the parent, and therefore follows the same non-profit principles", however if a subsidiary of a parent that is non-profit is non-profit then as Mozila is non-profit AOL is also non-profit, a clearly absurd conclusion. Also the same principle would presumably hold in the case of for-profit companies. This would mean that as AOL and Netscape are for-profit, then Mozilla and its offspring are also for profit.
Can an expert in company law help to clarify this muddle?
LookingGlass (talk) 13:18, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
It (the Foundation) owns a taxable subsidiary: the Mozilla Corporation, .... The subsidiary is 100% owned by the parent, and therefore follows the same non-profit principles.
I am guessing that taxable = for-profit, and that a non-profit can own a for-profit, even if I can't get my head around this, but what seems clear is that there is no need for a for-profit to follow "the same principles" as its non-profit owner. Their relationship is just an accounting issue. The rest is up to the parent to decide, ansd they can change their mind anytime. So although thanks to you I now get the rough idea, the article could be made a great deal clearer without the need for any DIY research, at least in terms of the "family-tree" and history. LookingGlass (talk) 19:29, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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Found this in the financing section. Holy Bias, Batman! How is this relevant to Firefox? And with the wording "merely a front", I am picturing an anti-"m$" open source guy saying that with clenched teeth. I get Firefox/OSS people aren't fans of Microsoft but this just seems like a pointless, unrelated jab. Anybody else agree?
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Is there another Firefox web-browser, than Mozilla Firefox? Does it really needed to be (re)highlighted? (Pleonasm?) --Alien4 (talk) 17:48, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
I found this article: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla and i think the doubts on the focus and finances of this organization while claim they need donations to further firefox and related topic deserves a mention here Informalinquirer (talk) 20:23, 6 October 2023 (UTC)