I have been reading a lot about Firefox recently. One of the most prominent things that sticks in my mind is this:
This move does raise a few questions such as: Why pay tax through a taxablee corporation when as a charity status you pay none?
This effectively means that Mozilla will find it far easier to act as a profit organisation than before, they had no reason to need to do this, other than to hide profit.
FireFox thrives on the fact that it has been made by a none-profit community which gives it extra prestige and sympathy which is badly needed when you are up against the big bad MicroSoft. This image has certainly helped the expansion and marketing of FireFox.
The next thing that sticks in my mind, is that the FireFox has a small search bar in the top right and corner of the browser. It would be very easy for FireFox to partner with Google and other leading search engines and to make a bit of extra money. In fact, not a bit, but a massive amount. Just imagine if all 100 million users earn Mozilla just 10 cents per year, Mozilla will have earnt $10 million in a year, and that is a very conversative estimate.
I am fairly sure that FireFox is earning the creators a tidy sum. This does not bother me, in fact I feel that they deserve it however, I think that making thousands of unpaid volunteers think that they are working for the common good and not for the financial gain of the original creators is wrong. They should at least be straight about what they do.
Although there is no hard evidence to suggest that my theory is true, there are enough signposts pointing that way. I leave you all to make up your own mind.
I, either way won't stop using FireFox.
http://www.mozilla.org/reorganization/
This move does raise a few questions such as: Why pay tax through a taxablee corporation when as a charity status you pay none?
This effectively means that Mozilla will find it far easier to act as a profit organisation than before, they had no reason to need to do this, other than to hide profit.
FireFox thrives on the fact that it has been made by a none-profit community which gives it extra prestige and sympathy which is badly needed when you are up against the big bad MicroSoft. This image has certainly helped the expansion and marketing of FireFox.
The next thing that sticks in my mind, is that the FireFox has a small search bar in the top right and corner of the browser. It would be very easy for FireFox to partner with Google and other leading search engines and to make a bit of extra money. In fact, not a bit, but a massive amount. Just imagine if all 100 million users earn Mozilla just 10 cents per year, Mozilla will have earnt $10 million in a year, and that is a very conversative estimate.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39173536,00.htm
I am fairly sure that FireFox is earning the creators a tidy sum. This does not bother me, in fact I feel that they deserve it however, I think that making thousands of unpaid volunteers think that they are working for the common good and not for the financial gain of the original creators is wrong. They should at least be straight about what they do.
Although there is no hard evidence to suggest that my theory is true, there are enough signposts pointing that way. I leave you all to make up your own mind.
I, either way won't stop using FireFox.
i too dont mind Firefox and mozilla getting something out of my searches. after all it doesnt interfere with my search results 
