[MW Forums]

The Mozilla Foundation has created a commercial subsidiary to handle the money it makes. more

[b_baggins]

Whenever you hear someone say "It's not about the money," you can guarantee it's about the money.

[webman2k]

In this case I would disagree. Like they said (which makes perfect sense) for tax reasons and such, it makes more sense to make commerical liscensing deals with a commercial company. As long as all of the proceeds still go into the development and support of their open source projects I see nothing wrong with this.

[Dick_Danger]

Wow, only one whiner so far.

All I can say is, good on ya mate.

I hope they make billions.

[powerbrent]

I think this will be a good thing, as the organization needs money to compete with the monied interests of Micro$oft, Apple/WebCore, etc. However, I do know from my political activities that money can destroy a great organization, so I hope that won't happen.
As for:
"There are no plans to introduce any new, paid services to make additional money for Mozilla, Nitot said."
I wouldn't mind some paid services and/or advertising, if it helps spread Mozilla's browsers, and break up M$'s browser monopoly.
I think the main thing here is that M$'s proprietary browser holds about 90% market share, and I'd like to see that spread out more with browsers that use all open standards.

[robertRoss]

As a web developer I have this impossible dream that no sappy movie can convince me will come true, MS saying forget spending development money on IE and let's license the Gecko engine for our browser...
Ironic how Netscape use to be the hideous headache browser for web development, but out of its ashes, the opposite is now true.

[macnuke]

so they make enough money to support themselves.
and a bit left over to throw at open source odds and ends.
and one of the best browsers around is still free.
good show for mozilla /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[samrod]

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As long as all of the proceeds still go into the development and support of their open source projects I see nothing wrong with this.

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So if they actually were in it for the money and figured out a way to get rich off this, there'd be something wrong with tha? Gee, Apple's in it for the money, and gets rich of selling software. Those bastards!

[Dick_Danger]

Touch

[whitedog]

I agree, the real story is the Phoenix nature of Netscape/Mozilla. Up from the ashes, indeed, kicking butt and taking names. The stuff of which legends are made. Hopefully, by the time Longhorn/Windows Vista provides a decent version of Internet Explorer, Firefox will have something like 25% of the browser market - and Safari will have another 10%. It could happen: Apple's market share in computers is finally rising again.